Not Working: Throwing error with "localhost:27017"

[SadiqOnGithub]

by using mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/test') by node application, running on windows, is throwing this error :

MongooseServerSelectionError: connect ECONNREFUSED ::1:27017
    at Connection.openUri (C:\Users\lenovo\Documents\webistes projects\Node\node prac\mongo\node_modules\mongoose\lib\connection.js:824:32)
    at C:\Users\lenovo\Documents\webistes projects\Node\node prac\mongo\node_modules\mongoose\lib\index.js:412:10
    at C:\Users\lenovo\Documents\webistes projects\Node\node prac\mongo\node_modules\mongoose\lib\helpers\promiseOrCallback.js:41:5
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at promiseOrCallback (C:\Users\lenovo\Documents\webistes projects\Node\node prac\mongo\node_modules\mongoose\lib\helpers\promiseOrCallback.js:40:10)
    at Mongoose._promiseOrCallback (C:\Users\lenovo\Documents\webistes projects\Node\node prac\mongo\node_modules\mongoose\lib\index.js:1265:10)    
    at Mongoose.connect (C:\Users\lenovo\Documents\webistes projects\Node\node prac\mongo\node_modules\mongoose\lib\index.js:411:20)
    at main (C:\Users\lenovo\Documents\webistes projects\Node\node prac\mongo\server.js:6:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\lenovo\Documents\webistes projects\Node\node prac\mongo\server.js:3:1)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1205:14) {
  reason: TopologyDescription {
    type: 'Unknown',
    servers: Map(1) { 'localhost:27017' => [ServerDescription] },
    stale: false,
    compatible: true,
    heartbeatFrequencyMS: 10000,
    localThresholdMS: 15,
    setName: null,
    maxElectionId: null,
    maxSetVersion: null,
    commonWireVersion: 0,
    logicalSessionTimeoutMinutes: null
  },
  code: undefined
}

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I apologize if this proposed change is not up to the mark or is violating some community guidelines.

but I wasted a lot of time on this so I can't resist but propose this change.

I think other people also have struggled with this
read more on this stack overflow answer : https://stackoverflow.com/a/70517348/14075519

Summary

Examples

[hasezoey]

This looks like it became a problem since NodeJS switched that localhost points to a IPv6 address instead of a IPv4 address in NodeJS 17.

And also looks like either mongodb or windows do not listen on the IPv6 address and only on the IPv4 address

[vkarpov15]

Thanks 👍 I've started using 127.0.0.1 for local dev since Node switched to using ipv6 by default, so this is a reasonable change.