Add frontend environment configuration for API URL injection

- .env.example: Documentation template
- .env.development: Local dev defaults (localhost:5000)
- .env.production: Production defaults (relative /graphql path)
- Updated .gitignore to track non-secret env files

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.gitignore

@@ -169,9 +169,11 @@ $RECYCLE.BIN/
 # Environment & Secrets
 # ============================================
 .env
-.env.*
+.env.local
+.env.*.local
 !.env.example
-!.env.*.example
+!.env.development
+!.env.production
 *.pem
 *.key
 *.p12

frontend/.env.development

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Development environment defaults
+VITE_GRAPHQL_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:5000/graphql

frontend/.env.example

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Books Frontend Environment Configuration
+# Copy this file to .env.local and adjust values for your environment
+
+# GraphQL API endpoint
+# Development: http://localhost:5000/graphql
+# Production: /graphql (relative, proxied by nginx/ingress)
+VITE_GRAPHQL_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:5000/graphql

frontend/.env.production

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Production environment - uses relative path (proxied by nginx/ingress)
+VITE_GRAPHQL_ENDPOINT=/graphql