My preferred approach is to hand-code this solution. That's probably because I've written code before to read a HOCON file, so it's more straightforward atm.
Typesafe HOCON configuration file needs to be on the application classpath like src/main/resources. Failure leads to configuration setting errors.
The ZIO code demonstrates reading a HOCON file, converting it to Config, then creating an AppProperties instance from specified properties.
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