fix: add error handling to authentication controllers

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Summary

This PR adds proper error handling to authentication controllers by wrapping asynchronous operations in try-catch blocks.

Changes Made
Added try-catch blocks to registerUser
Added try-catch blocks to loginUser
Improved error handling for authentication-related operations
Added server error responses for unexpected failures
Added error logging for easier debugging
Why

Authentication controllers perform multiple asynchronous operations such as database queries and password hashing. Without proper error handling, unexpected failures can lead to unhandled exceptions and inconsistent API responses.

Issue

Closes #53

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • User registration now returns descriptive error messages when unexpected errors occur
  • Google authentication error responses are now more consistent and informative

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• backend/src/controllers/authController.ts

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

registerUser in authController.ts is wrapped in a try/catch block so unhandled runtime errors return a 500 response with { success: false, message } instead of crashing the request. googleAuth's catch block is changed from returning 400 with { message: 'Google Auth Failed' } to logging Google Auth Error: and returning 500 with { success: false, message: 'Google authentication failed' }.

Changes

Auth Controller Error Handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
registerUser try/catch and googleAuth 500 response backend/src/controllers/authController.ts	registerUser wraps the full registration flow in a try/catch; unhandled exceptions are logged and return 500 with { success: false, message }. googleAuth's catch block switches from 400 { message: 'Google Auth Failed' } to a logged 500 { success: false, message: 'Google authentication failed' }. getMe is unchanged beyond minor formatting.

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🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~8 minutes

Poem

🐇 Hop hop, no more crashes in the night,
When Prisma stumbles, we catch it right!
A try wraps the login, a catch holds the fall,
Five-hundred replies stand guard for us all.
The rabbit sleeps soundly — errors are tamed. 🌙

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately describes the main change: adding error handling to authentication controllers, which is the core objective of this PR.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR implements try-catch blocks in registerUser and googleAuth, and adds standardized error responses and error logging as required by issue #53, though loginUser changes are not detailed.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changes are focused on error handling in authentication controllers, directly aligned with issue #53; no out-of-scope modifications detected.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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Inline comments:
In `@backend/src/controllers/authController.ts`:
- Around line 64-67: The catch blocks in authController.ts are exposing raw
error messages to clients, which leaks internal implementation details and
violates security practices. In both the catch block around lines 64-67 and the
one around lines 103-105, replace the dynamic error.message with a fixed generic
message like "Internal server error" in the res.status(500).json() response.
Keep the detailed error information (error.message and full error object) only
in server-side logging using a logger or console.error so debugging information
is available internally but not exposed to clients.

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