Rebased new core onto master after 2 PRs (lint + release)

Author: HugoOnghai

.gitignore

@@ -156,10 +156,6 @@ target/
 
 # Jupyter Notebook
 .ipynb_checkpoints
-<<<<<<< HEAD
-<<<<<<< HEAD
-=======
->>>>>>> 9359e8d ((after rebase) updated gitignore and moved linting to new branch)
 
 # IPython
 profile_default/
@@ -168,7 +164,7 @@ ipython_config.py
 # pyenv
 #   For a library or package, you might want to ignore these files since the code is
 #   intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:
-# .python-version
+# # .python-version
 
 # pipenv
 #   According to pypa/pipenv#598, it is recommended to include Pipfile.lock in version control.
@@ -295,17 +291,7 @@ __marimo__/
 # json files for storing production records
 *.json
 .env
-<<<<<<< HEAD
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-/json_pages
-/notebooks
-/test_json_pages
-=======
-/json_pages
->>>>>>> 9359e8d ((after rebase) updated gitignore and moved linting to new branch)
-=======
-/json_pages
 
-/test_json_pages
+/json_pages
 /notebooks
->>>>>>> 5830467 (Remove accidentally committed files)
+/test_json_pages

pyproject.toml

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ maintainers = [
 requires-python = ">=3.11"
 dependencies = [
     "elinkapi>=0.4.9",
+    "pre-commit>=4.2.0",
     "pydantic>=2.11.7",
     "pymongo>=4.13.2",
 ]