8. Future improvements

Once the basic setup is working, consider implementing the following:

MySQL: Replace SQLite with MySQL for persistent production database storage.
Authentication: Protect endpoints using API keys or token-based authentication. The backend-api has an example
Logging: Replace print() statements with Python's logging module.
Error handling: Handle database connection failures and invalid requests.
Configuration: Move database paths, ports and other settings into environment variables.
Deployment - Use Docker with docker-compose to run self hosted images from