Auth endpoints (/signup, /login) return empty responses instead of JSON on error

[SoorejS]

🐞 Problem
Both /signup and /login endpoints sometimes return an empty response body instead of a JSON response when an error occurs.

This causes the frontend to fail with the following error:

Failed to execute 'json' on 'Response': Unexpected end of JSON input

Expected Behavior

The backend should always return a valid JSON response (success or error) for auth endpoints,

Actual Behavior

On certain error paths (e.g. validation failure, user already exists, password mismatch, JWT/bcrypt error), the handler exits without calling c.JSON(...), resulting in an empty response body.

Impact

Frontend crashes during signup/login

New users cannot complete authentication

Poor developer onboarding experience for local setup

Steps to Reproduce

Run backend and frontend locally as per README

Attempt signup or login

Observe frontend error: Unexpected end of JSON input

I have reproduced this issue locally and would like to work on fixing it. Please let me know if I can proceed and submit a PR.

[SoorejS]

Could you please assign this issue to me so I can submit a PR?

[rushikesh249]

Hi @SoorejS 👋
I would like to work on fixing this issue by ensuring all auth endpoints consistently return JSON responses on both success and error cases.
Please assign this to me. Thanks!