backend/database.py

import os
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
from dotenv import load_dotenv

# Load environment variables from your .env file
load_dotenv()

# Fetch the Neon database URL
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URL = os.getenv("DATABASE_URL")

if not SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URL:
    raise ValueError("DATABASE_URL environment variable is not set!")

# Create the Postgres engine (no check_same_thread needed for Postgres)
eng = create_engine(SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URL)

SessionLocal = sessionmaker(autocommit=False, autoflush=False, bind=eng)

Base = declarative_base()

def get_db():
    db = SessionLocal()
    try:
        yield db
    finally:
        db.close()