improve cli creds extraction

app/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+test-results
+playwright-report
+bknd.config.*

app/src/cli/commands/run/platform.ts

@@ -72,9 +72,10 @@ export async function getConfigPath(filePath?: string) {
       }
    }
 
-   const paths = ["./bknd.config", "./bknd.config.ts", "./bknd.config.js"];
+   const exts = ["", ".js", ".ts", ".mjs", ".cjs", ".json"];
+   const paths = exts.map((e) => `bknd.config${e}`);
    for (const p of paths) {
-      const _p = path.resolve(process.cwd(), p);
+      const _p = path.relative(process.cwd(), p);
       if (await fileExists(_p)) {
          return _p;
       }

app/src/cli/commands/run/run.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { colorizeConsole, config } from "core";
 import dotenv from "dotenv";
 import { registries } from "modules/registries";
 import c from "picocolors";
+import path from "node:path";
 import {
    PLATFORMS,
    type Platform,
@@ -15,8 +16,12 @@ import {
    getConnectionCredentialsFromEnv,
    startServer,
 } from "./platform";
+import { makeConfig } from "adapter";
 
-dotenv.config();
+const env_files = [".env", ".dev.vars"];
+dotenv.config({
+   path: env_files.map((file) => path.resolve(process.cwd(), file)),
+});
 const isBun = typeof Bun !== "undefined";
 
 export const run: CliCommand = (program) => {
@@ -85,24 +90,12 @@ async function makeApp(config: MakeAppConfig) {
    return app;
 }
 
-export async function makeConfigApp(config: CliBkndConfig, platform?: Platform) {
-   const appConfig = typeof config.app === "function" ? config.app(process.env) : config.app;
-   const app = App.create(appConfig);
-
-   app.emgr.onEvent(
-      App.Events.AppBuiltEvent,
-      async () => {
-         await attachServeStatic(app, platform ?? "node");
-         app.registerAdminController();
-
-         await config.onBuilt?.(app);
-      },
-      "sync",
-   );
-
-   await config.beforeBuild?.(app);
-   await app.build(config.buildConfig);
-   return app;
+export async function makeConfigApp(_config: CliBkndConfig, platform?: Platform) {
+   const config = makeConfig(_config, process.env);
+   return makeApp({
+      ...config,
+      server: { platform },
+   });
 }
 
 async function action(options: {
@@ -118,19 +111,31 @@ async function action(options: {
    const configFilePath = await getConfigPath(options.config);
 
    let app: App | undefined = undefined;
+   // first start from arguments if given
    if (options.dbUrl) {
       console.info("Using connection from", c.cyan("--db-url"));
       const connection = options.dbUrl
          ? { url: options.dbUrl, authToken: options.dbToken }
          : undefined;
       app = await makeApp({ connection, server: { platform: options.server } });
+
+      // check configuration file to be present
    } else if (configFilePath) {
       console.info("Using config from", c.cyan(configFilePath));
+      try {
          const config = (await import(configFilePath).then((m) => m.default)) as CliBkndConfig;
          app = await makeConfigApp(config, options.server);
+      } catch (e) {
+         console.error("Failed to load config:", e);
+         process.exit(1);
+      }
+
+      // try to use an in-memory connection
    } else if (options.memory) {
       console.info("Using", c.cyan("in-memory"), "connection");
       app = await makeApp({ server: { platform: options.server } });
+
+      // finally try to use env variables
    } else {
       const credentials = getConnectionCredentialsFromEnv();
       if (credentials) {
@@ -139,6 +144,7 @@ async function action(options: {
       }
    }
 
+   // if nothing helps, create a file based app
    if (!app) {
       const connection = { url: "file:data.db" } as Config;
       console.info("Using connection", c.cyan(connection.url));

app/src/cli/types.d.ts

@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
-import type { CreateAppConfig } from "App";
-import type { FrameworkBkndConfig } from "adapter";
+import type { BkndConfig } from "adapter";
 import type { Command } from "commander";
 
 export type CliCommand = (program: Command) => void;
 
-export type CliBkndConfig<Env = any> = FrameworkBkndConfig & {
-   app: CreateAppConfig | ((env: Env) => CreateAppConfig);
-   setAdminHtml?: boolean;
+export type CliBkndConfig<Env = any> = BkndConfig & {
    server?: {
       port?: number;
       platform?: "node" | "bun";