fix: layout refinements + update deps

- Section labels: zero top-margin on first-child in section-block
- Bullets: remove duplicate disc via list-style:none!important, remove inline bullet char in school_profile
- Page numbers: light-blue (#1C75BC) footer color
- Remove 'Summary info' heading from university templates
- Bump all dependency floors to current stable versions
- Dockerfile base image python:3.11-slim -> 3.12-slim

Dockerfile

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM python:3.11-slim
+FROM python:3.12-slim
 
 # Playwright/Chromium system dependencies
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \

app/core/database.py

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+"""Database engine and session factory (SQLAlchemy).
+
+Engine is created lazily to avoid crash on startup when no DB is available
+(e.g. Hugging Face Spaces without MySQL).
+"""
+
+import logging
+from sqlalchemy import create_engine
+from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker, DeclarativeBase
+
+from app.core.config import get_settings
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class Base(DeclarativeBase):
+    pass
+
+
+_engine = None
+
+
+def _get_engine():
+    global _engine
+    if _engine is None:
+        _settings = get_settings()
+        try:
+            _engine = create_engine(
+                _settings.database_url,
+                pool_pre_ping=True,
+                pool_recycle=3600,
+                echo=_settings.debug,
+            )
+        except Exception as exc:
+            logger.warning("Database engine creation failed: %s", exc)
+            raise
+    return _engine
+
+
+def get_db():
+    """FastAPI dependency: yields a DB session, closes on exit."""
+    engine = _get_engine()
+    Session = sessionmaker(autocommit=False, autoflush=False, bind=engine)
+    db = Session()
+    try:
+        yield db
+    finally:
+        db.close()

app/services/pdf_renderer.py

@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ async def render_pdf_from_html(
                 header_template='<span></span>',
                 footer_template=(
                     '<div style="width:100%;text-align:center;font-size:10px;'
-                    'font-family:Century Gothic,Segoe UI,sans-serif;color:#333;'
+                    'font-family:Century Gothic,Segoe UI,sans-serif;color:#1C75BC;'
                     'padding:0 0 4px 0;">'
                     '<span class="pageNumber"></span></div>'
                 ),

app/static/css/print.css

@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ a:visited {
 .hb-bullet-list,
 .ul,
 ul.hb-bullet-list {
-    list-style: none;
+    list-style: none !important;
     margin: 0 0 8pt 16pt;
     padding: 0;
     font-size: 10pt;
@@ -640,6 +640,10 @@ table.programs td:nth-child(5) {
     border: none;
 }
 
+.section-block> :first-child {
+    margin-top: 0;
+}
+
 .summary-section {
     display: block;
 }

app/templates/partials/blocks/school_profile.html

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
         <tr>
             <td class="hb-school-top-summary">
                 {% if block.data.overview %}
-                <div class="hb-summary-title">Summary info</div>
                 <ul class="hb-summary-ul">
                     {% if block.data.overview.founded %}<li><span class="hb-lbl">Founded:</span> {{
                         block.data.overview.founded | e }}</li>{% endif %}
@@ -70,7 +69,7 @@
         <ul class="hb-benefits-ul">
             {% for b in block.data.benefits %}
             {% if b %}
-            <li class="hb-benefit-item">• <span class="hb-benefit-text">{{ b | e }}</span></li>
+            <li class="hb-benefit-item"><span class="hb-benefit-text">{{ b | e }}</span></li>
             {% endif %}
             {% endfor %}
         </ul>

app/templates/partials/university.html

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
         <tr>
             <td class="school-top-summary">
                 {% if uni.overview %}
-                <div class="summary-title">Summary info</div>
                 <ul class="summary-ul">
                     {% if uni.overview.founded %}<li><span class="lbl">Founded:</span> {{ uni.overview.founded | e }}
                     </li>{% endif %}

requirements.txt

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-fastapi>=0.110.0
-uvicorn[standard]>=0.27.0
-pydantic>=2.5.0
-pydantic-settings>=2.1.0
-httpx>=0.27.0
-jinja2>=3.1.0
-markupsafe>=2.1.0
-playwright>=1.40.0
-pypdf>=4.0.0
-python-dotenv>=1.0.0
+fastapi>=0.135.0
+uvicorn[standard]>=0.34.0
+pydantic>=2.10.0
+pydantic-settings>=2.7.0
+httpx>=0.28.0
+jinja2>=3.1.4
+markupsafe>=3.0.0
+playwright>=1.50.0
+pypdf>=5.0.0
+python-dotenv>=1.0.1