* add the IntelliJ Idea config file to .gitignore
* Update the docs for using a user created key and restricting mongodb IP access to public IP addresses
* mkdocs plugins: add plugin for social cards and plugin that allow to exclude a folder
* docs: fix hyperlinks
* mkdocs: social cards (descriptions) for 'contributions' and 'deployment' guides
* mkdocs: social cards (descriptions) for all 'index.md'
* mkdocs: social cards (descriptions) for 'features' and 'plugins'
* mkdocs: social cards (descriptions) for 'general_info'
* mkdocs: social cards (descriptions) for 'configuration'
* mkdocs: social cards (descriptions) for 'installation'
* mkdocs: minor fixes
* update librechat.svg
* update how_to_contribute.md
add reference to the official GitHub documentation
* feat: update PaLM icons
* feat: add additional google models
* POC: formatting inputs for Vertex AI streaming
* refactor: move endpoints services outside of /routes dir to /services/Endpoints
* refactor: shorten schemas import
* refactor: rename PALM to GOOGLE
* feat: make Google editable endpoint
* feat: reusable Ask and Edit controllers based off Anthropic
* chore: organize imports/logic
* fix(parseConvo): include examples in googleSchema
* fix: google only allows odd number of messages to be sent
* fix: pass proxy to AnthropicClient
* refactor: change `google` altName to `Google`
* refactor: update getModelMaxTokens and related functions to handle maxTokensMap with nested endpoint model key/values
* refactor: google Icon and response sender changes (Codey and Google logo instead of PaLM in all cases)
* feat: google support for maxTokensMap
* feat: google updated endpoints with Ask/Edit controllers, buildOptions, and initializeClient
* feat(GoogleClient): now builds prompt for text models and supports real streaming from Vertex AI through langchain
* chore(GoogleClient): remove comments, left before for reference in git history
* docs: update google instructions (WIP)
* docs(apis_and_tokens.md): add images to google instructions
* docs: remove typo apis_and_tokens.md
* Update apis_and_tokens.md
* feat(Google): use default settings map, fully support context for both text and chat models, fully support examples for chat models
* chore: update more PaLM references to Google
* chore: move playwright out of workflows to avoid failing tests
