It seems that the payload/payload.config.ts is not correctly setup to work with create-payload-app cli which requires both // database-adapter-config-start and // database-adapter-config-end to work correctly.
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Unfortunately, the tests in create-payload-app do not attempt to cover this ‘template’, presumably because it is outside of the payload monorepo. Perhaps, testing npx create-payload-app here would be appropriate.
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