Upgrade Django to v4 and also other libraries

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First draft of upgrade to Django v4.

Status

• [x] Backend make changes
• [x] Backend can spin up server
• [x] Backend can talk to frontend
  • [x] Frontend prep dev environment
    • Encounter error, using node 17 or 16 got error, npm I failed. Solved by changing node-sass to sass, as the former is deprecated.
    • Some error in sass. Solved by this SO.
  • [x] Frontend make changes to accept backend payload change
  • [x] Frontend can login OK
  • [x] Frontend can fetch user objects OK

Migration plan:

❯ ./manage.py migrate --plan                                                                                                       
Planned operations:
admin.0003_logentry_add_action_flag_choices
    Alter field action_flag on logentry
auth.0009_alter_user_last_name_max_length
    Alter field last_name on user
auth.0010_alter_group_name_max_length
    Alter field name on group
auth.0011_update_proxy_permissions
    Raw Python operation ->     Update the content_type of prox…
auth.0012_alter_user_first_name_max_length
    Alter field first_name on user

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Need Frontend Support

Backend JWT Auth payload and process will change. We need frontend to make the change too, mostly about the refresh mechanism.