Add API Versioning Strategy

[mikewheeleer]

Implement API Versioning for Endpoint Evolution

Description

Introduce versioned route prefixes and migration plan to support non-breaking API evolution.

Requirements and context

• Must be secure, tested, and documented
• Should be efficient and easy to review

Suggested execution

• Fork the repo and create a branch
• git checkout -b feature/api-versioning-v1
• Implement changes
• Write backend code: route version namespaces
• Write comprehensive tests: backward compatibility and route discovery
• Add documentation: README.md
• Include JSDoc-style comments
• Validate security assumptions

Test and commit

• Run tests
• Cover edge cases
• Include test output and security notes

Example commit message

feat(api): introduce versioned routing strategy for v1 endpoints

Guidelines

• Minimum 95 percent test coverage
• Clear documentation
• Timeframe: 96 hours

[Jennnybee]

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