server/src/env.ts

import dotenv from 'dotenv';
import path from 'path';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';

const __dirname = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));

// FREEAPI_ENV_PATH lets embedders (e.g. the desktop app, where __dirname sits
// inside a bundle) point at an explicit .env — or at nothing: dotenv silently
// no-ops on a missing file either way.
dotenv.config({ path: process.env.FREEAPI_ENV_PATH ?? path.resolve(__dirname, '../../.env') });