chore: Remove arcjet

[arjunkomath]

Migrate to Vercel firewall

Summary by CodeRabbit

Release Notes

• Chores
  • Removed external service dependency from project packages and updated configuration accordingly
  • Removed rate limiting protection that was previously enforced across multiple API endpoints including billing, email, pages, domains, and team management operations
  • Removed anti-abuse validation checks from user signup and form submission flows
  • Updated environment configuration files and removed related documentation references

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated (UTC)
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This pull request removes all Arcjet integration from the codebase, including the dependency from both apps/page and apps/web, environment variable entries, documentation references, and all protection/rate-limiting logic from multiple API endpoints.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Configuration & Documentation README.md, apps/page/.env.example, apps/web/.env.example	Removed Arcjet references from documentation and example environment files.
Package Dependencies apps/page/package.json, apps/web/package.json	Removed @arcjet/next@1.0.0-alpha.20 dependency from both applications.
Page App API Routes apps/page/pages/api/auth/request-magic-link.ts, apps/page/pages/api/notifications/subscribe-email.ts, apps/page/pages/api/roadmap/submit-triage.ts	Eliminated Arcjet-based anti-abuse, email protection, and rate-limiting checks from signup, subscription, and triage submission endpoints.
Web App Billing APIs apps/web/pages/api/billing/create-billing-portal.ts, apps/web/pages/api/billing/redirect-to-checkout.ts	Removed rate-limiter invocations from billing portal and checkout redirect endpoints.
Web App Page Management APIs apps/web/pages/api/pages/new.ts, apps/web/pages/api/pages/settings/add-domain.ts, apps/web/pages/api/pages/settings/check-domain.ts, apps/web/pages/api/pages/validate-url.ts	Removed rate-limiting checks from page creation, domain management, and URL validation endpoints.
Web App Content & Collaboration APIs apps/web/pages/api/posts/index.ts, apps/web/pages/api/emails/subscribers/export-csv.ts, apps/web/pages/api/teams/invite/index.ts, apps/web/pages/api/teams/invite/accept/index.ts, apps/web/pages/api/teams/member/[id]/index.ts	Removed rate-limiting protection from post creation, subscriber export, team invitation, and member management endpoints.
Rate Limiting Utility apps/web/utils/rate-limit.ts	Deleted the IP-based sliding-window rate limiter utility that implemented Arcjet protection with HTTP 429 responses.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~12 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• feat: Notify user roadmap submissions #105: Modifies apps/page/pages/api/roadmap/submit-triage.ts with Arcjet protection logic changes on the same file.
• Add audit logs for roadmaps #86: Updates apps/web/pages/api/posts/index.ts POST handler with audit-log additions alongside rate limiter removal.

Poem

🐰 Arcjet's armor, once so strong,

Now cast aside—we move along!

No more walls to slow our pace,

Just clean code in its rightful place.

Simpler paths for buns to race! 🌟

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately and concisely describes the main change: removing Arcjet integration across multiple files and packages in the codebase.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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