Module not found: Can't resolve 'path' with Hono Drizzle

./node_modules/dotenv/lib/main.js:2:1
Module not found: Can't resolve 'path'

import { Hono } from "hono";

import { db } from "@/db/drizzle";
import { accounts } from "@/db/schema";

const app = new Hono().get("/", async (c) => {
  console.log("running accounts query");


  const data = async () => {
    try {
      const dbFetch = await db
        .select({
          id: accounts.id,
          name: accounts.name,
        })
        .from(accounts);
      return dbFetch;
    } catch (error) {
      console.log("Error fetching data from DB", error);
    }
   // when I comment out the data function and replace what's being passed to c.json() with something fixed then there is no issue but when I just try to run this function even when its not being passed to c.json() then it throws the same error 

  };

  return c.json({ data });
});

export default app;

import "dotenv/config";

import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/postgres-js";
import postgres from "postgres";

const connectionString = process.env.DATABASE_URL!;

// Disable prefetch as it is not supported for "Transaction" pool mode
export const client = postgres(connectionString, { prepare: false });
export const db = drizzle(client);