[BUG]: No CORS middleware on FastAPI app — frontend requests blocked by browser

[abhishek-8081]

⚡️ Describe the Bug

api/main.py has no CORS middleware configured. Any request made from a browser-based frontend (React, vanilla JS, etc.) running on a different origin gets blocked with a CORS policy error. The API works fine from curl or Postman, but not from any browser.

👣 Steps to Reproduce

1. Start the API with uvicorn api.main:app --reload (runs on port 8000)
2. Open a frontend app on a different port (e.g. http://localhost:3000)
3. Try calling any endpoint like POST /forms/fill via fetch() or axios
4. Browser console shows: Access to fetch has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present

📉 Expected Behavior

The API should include CORS middleware so that frontend apps running on different origins can communicate with it without being blocked by the browser.

🖥️ Environment Information

• OS: macOS
• Docker/Compose Version: Docker 27.x / Compose v2
• Ollama Model used: N/A (this is an API-level config issue)

📸 Screenshots/Logs

Current api/main.py — no CORS setup at all:

from fastapi import FastAPI
from api.routes import templates, forms

app = FastAPI()

app.include_router(templates.router)
app.include_router(forms.router)

[Arijit429]

This is fixed in my PR #431 — added CORSMiddleware allowing localhost:5500 origins so the vanilla JS frontend can communicate with the backend without CORS errors.

[marcvergees]

Done