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Connecting to MongoDB via localhost can fail in node.js v17 and above #8
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As described in this Mongoose issue: depending on your operating system configuration, in node v17 and above,
localhostcan resolve to the IPv6 address::1instead of the usual IPv4 loopback address127.0.0.1, which kept me from being able to connect to the MongoDB server on my local device when running this project, because MongoDB needs to be started from the command line with a special flag before it will support IPv6 connections. The IPv4/IPv6 issue could be disambiguated by changing the URI in projects/server/.env fromlocalhostto127.0.0.1.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: