Added GitHub Actions to deploy backend to Hugging Face Apce after each push to main branch

Author: ParagGhatage

.github/workflows/deploy-backend-to-hf.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+name: 🚀 Deploy Backend to HF Space
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main # or your primary branch
+    paths:
+      - "backend/**" # only trigger when anything under backend/ changes
+
+jobs:
+  deploy:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: 👉 Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: 🔒 Install HF CLI
+        run: pip install huggingface_hub
+
+      - name: 🔑 HF login
+        env:
+          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN }}
+        run: huggingface-cli login --token "$HF_TOKEN"
+
+      - name: 📂 Prepare Space repo
+        env:
+          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          rm -rf space-backend
+          git clone https://Thunder1245:${HF_TOKEN}@huggingface.co/spaces/Thunder1245/perspective-backend.git space-backend
+
+      - name: 📦 Install rsync
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y rsync
+
+      - name: 📤 Sync backend code
+        env:
+          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          cd space-backend
+
+          # Only remove tracked files (preserve .git and config)
+          git rm -r . || true
+          cd ..
+
+          # Copy new backend files in
+          cp -R backend/. space-backend/
+
+          # Push new code to HF Space
+          cd space-backend
+          git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
+          git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
+          git add --all
+          git commit -m "Auto‑deploy backend: ${{ github.sha }}" || echo "No changes to commit"
+          git push origin main
+

.gitignore

@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ share/python-wheels/
 *.egg
 MANIFEST
 
+.github/act-events/
+.secrets
+
 # PyInstaller
 #  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
 #  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.

backend/README.md

@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ app_file: Dockerfile
 pinned: false
 ---
 
+
 # Perspective Backend
 
+
 Welcome to the **Perspective** backend! 🚀
 
 This backend is built with FastAPI and managed using **uv**, a handy Python project tool that simplifies dependency management and running the app.

backend/pyproject.toml

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "newspaper3k>=0.2.8",
     "nltk>=3.9.1",
     "pinecone>=7.3.0",
-    "pinecone-client>=6.0.0",
     "rake-nltk>=1.0.6",
     "readability-lxml>=0.8.4.1",
     "requests>=2.32.3",