parag-ingalkar/easy-payroll ? reverse-engineered prompt

Build me a simple full stack payroll app for Indian micro SMEs with fewer than 10 employees.

I want a small business owner to be able to add employees, keep basic salary details, and manage monthly payroll in one place. The app should feel easy to use, with a clean dashboard where I can see employees, payroll status, and anything important at a glance. It should support the kind of basic payroll workflow a tiny team in India would actually need, not a big enterprise system.

Please set up both the frontend and backend so the whole thing works end to end. Use sensible defaults, make the UI straightforward, and keep the data organized so it would be easy to extend later. If you need to check anything about current best practices or APIs, look up the current docs online.

Also make sure the project runs smoothly from the repo and feels like a real product, not just a demo.