updated

app.py

@@ -28,11 +28,12 @@ from backend.models.resume_parser.resume_to_features import extract_resume_featu
 # Initialize Flask app
 app = Flask(
     __name__,
-    static_folder='backend/static',        # this is the actual folder on disk
-    static_url_path='/static',             # this is the URL route, must start with `/`
-    template_folder='backend/templates'
+    static_folder='backend/static',
+    static_url_path='/static',
+    template_folder='backend/templates',
+    instance_path=os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'instance')  # ✅ fix goes here
 )
-app.instance_path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'instance')
+
 app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = 'your-secret-key'
 #
 # Configure the database connection
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = 'your-secret-key'
 # SQLite URI (e.g. `sqlite:///relative/path.db`). Here we use four
 # leading slashes because the path is relative to the project
 # directory when using `sqlite:///backend/instance/codingo.db`.
-app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite:///./codingo.db'
+app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite:///codingo.db'
 app.config['SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS'] = False
 from flask_wtf.csrf import CSRFProtect
 
@@ -61,7 +62,6 @@ from flask_wtf.csrf import CSRFProtect
 # Create necessary directories
 os.makedirs('static/audio', exist_ok=True)
 os.makedirs('temp', exist_ok=True)
-os.makedirs('backend/instance', exist_ok=True)
 
 # Initialize DB with app
 init_db(app)