Add a troubleshooting section to the getting started guide

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Summary

Adds a short troubleshooting section to the getting started guide covering the problems people hit most often on first run:

• Ports 3000 or 8000 already in use
• The frontend cannot reach the API
• CORS errors when serving the frontend from another origin
• Resetting to an empty database

Notes

Commands and file paths match docker-compose.yml and the backend settings.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added troubleshooting guidance for occupied ports, frontend API errors, CORS issues, and resetting the database.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The getting-started guide adds troubleshooting instructions for occupied ports, frontend API errors, CORS errors, and database resets. It includes port checks, a backend health check, CORS configuration guidance, and reset steps for local and Docker Compose databases.

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Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 3ed26

The changed troubleshooting guidance matches the backend’s CORS configuration. No actionable merge-blocking issue remains.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3f1c8

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: docs

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — docs (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in docs/getting-started.md: Added guidance for resolving port conflicts by stopping the process or changing the published Docker port, and checking listeners with lsof.
• observed — Modified behavior in docs/getting-started.md: Added steps for diagnosing frontend API errors: check backend health with /api/health; when using npm run dev, the backend must listen on port 8000 for Vite’s /api proxy.
• observed — Modified behavior in docs/getting-started.md: Added instructions to add the frontend’s origin to CORS_ORIGINS when browser requests fail with a CORS error, with a link to the configuration guide.
• observed — Modified behavior in docs/getting-started.md: Added database reset instructions: stop the app and delete backend/todos.db for local runs, or remove Docker Compose containers and volumes with docker compose down -v.

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the addition of a troubleshooting section to the getting started guide, which matches the documented changes.
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Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Comment Severity Gate		No supplied Critical or Major findings remain outstanding. The two posted findings are Minor and marked resolved. The current review reports zero actionable findings.

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_{A rabbit checks the ports at dawn,
Then tests the API before moving on.
CORS gets a note, the database a way,
To start fresh for another day.
The guide now helps the burrow run!}

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/getting-started.md:
- Line 57: Update the `lsof` listener guidance in this section to include a
command for checking port 8000 as well as port 3000, so users can identify
processes using either port.
- Line 75: Update the local reset instructions in the getting-started
documentation to clarify that backend/todos.db applies to the default
configuration; for other configurations, direct users to delete the SQLite file
specified by DATABASE_URL, including the configured data/todos.db path.

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🔇 Additional comments (2)

docs/getting-started.md (2)

64-64: 🎯 Functional Correctness

The command uses the registered backend route /api/health. backend/app/main.py:44 defines @app.get("/api/health"), so the health check URL is correct.

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78-78: 🎯 Functional Correctness

The concern is refuted. docker-compose.yml defines no database volume or bind mount. The backend stores the default SQLite file inside the container at /app/todos.db, so removing the Compose container removes the database. docker compose down -v therefore resets the default Compose database.