fix: display backend error on password reset failure (#504)

[RounakKumarAgarwal]

Description

Fixes #504

The password-reset flow (confirmForgotPassword) read data.message, but the backend returns errors under data.error — so users saw a generic "Password update failed" instead of the specific reason (e.g. "Reset code has expired. Please request a new one.").

Now reads data.error first, falling back to data.message.

Changes

• frontend/src/context/authContext.tsx: confirmForgotPassword now reads data.error || data.message || 'Password update failed'.

Related

Complements #471 (which applies the same fix to the login handler). This covers the password-reset case, which #471 doesn't touch — using the same data.error || data.message pattern for consistency.

Testing

• npm run build — no new errors.
  Before

Screen.Recording.2026-09-16.182320.mp4

After

Screen.Recording.2026-09-16.184153.mp4

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved password-reset error messages by showing the most specific available error detail, with a clear fallback message when no details are provided.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The password reset confirmation error now uses the backend’s error field before checking message or using the generic fallback.

Changes

Password reset error handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reset error message fallback frontend/src/context/authContext.tsx	confirmForgotPassword now throws the backend’s data.error value first, then data.message, and finally Password update failed.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: syedbarkath980

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d87d3

The password-reset flow now surfaces specific backend failures while retaining message and generic fallbacks, with no remaining merge-blocking risk.

🚥 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 clearly and concisely describes the main change: displaying backend errors when password reset confirmation fails.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #504 requires confirmForgotPassword to surface data.error, then fall back to data.message, and then use Password update failed. The reviewed diff implements this exact precedence in `fro…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The PR changes one error-selection expression in confirmForgotPassword, which directly addresses issue #504. The diff contains no unrelated source or configuration changes. All good on scope.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1…

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