Feat: AppImage Release for Linux

[tushar1977]

Issue - #871

This PR implements a AppImage for release

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  • Enhanced the build and release process to ensure utilities are properly included in all distribution packages for improved consistency across releases.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

A new step was added to the publish-tauri GitHub Actions workflow that copies the utils directory into the distribution folders for both the backend and sync microservice artifacts during the release process.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Change Summary
GitHub Actions Workflow ​.github/workflows/build-and-release.yml	Added "Copy utils folder" step to the publish-tauri job that copies utils to backend/dist/utils and sync-microservice/dist/utils after artifact extraction and before Node setup

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~5 minutes

Poem

🐰 A little step hops into the flow,
Copying utils here and there we go,
From source to dist, a simple care,
The bundles now are complete and fair! 📦✨

Pre-merge checks

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title 'Feat: AppImage Release for Linux' directly and clearly summarizes the main change: adding AppImage support for Linux distribution, which aligns perfectly with the changeset modifications to tauri.conf.json.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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frontend/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json (1)

10-10: AppImage target successfully added to build configuration.

The addition of "appimage" to the targets array correctly enables AppImage bundle generation for Linux distributions.

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frontend/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json (1)

10-10: LGTM! AppImage target added correctly.

The addition of "appimage" to the bundle targets array enables AppImage distribution for Linux alongside the existing deb package format.