Playground: Fix client-side errors in the playground frontend 58 - Milestone 1

Description

This PR is for issue #58

After investigating the redirect scheme for the playground I implemented a revised method that reduces the redirects in order to reduce the possibility of similar errors experienced in #58 and provide the user with a better/faster experience. I made a guide describing the changes and providing instructions with sample user flows: https://github.com/hichana/flip-fest/tree/submission/issue-%2358/milestone-%231/hichana/submission/issue-58/milestone-1/hichana

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