Added the account recovery flow

frontend/pages/api/auth/SendEmailOnPasswordReset.ts

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+interface Props {
+  email: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * This is the first of the account recovery step (a user needs to verify their email).
+ * It will send an email containing a magic link to start the account recovery flow.
+ * @param {object} obj
+ * @param {object} obj.email - email of a user that is trying to recover access to their account
+ * @returns
+ */
+const SendEmailOnPasswordReset = async ({ email }: Props) => {
+  const response = await fetch('/api/v1/password/email/password-reset', {
+    method: 'POST',
+    headers: {
+      'Content-Type': 'application/json'
+    },
+    body: JSON.stringify({
+      email: email
+    })
+  });
+  // need precise error handling about the status code
+  if (response?.status === 200) {
+    const data = await response.json();
+    return data;
+  }
+
+  throw new Error(
+    'Something went wrong while sending the email verification for password reset.'
+  );
+};
+
+export default SendEmailOnPasswordReset;