MongoNetworkError: failed to connect to server [localhost:27017] on first connect [MongoNetworkError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017]

Question

I\'m new in nodeJS, started learning by following a trailer on youtube, everything goes well until I added the connect function if mongodb,

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Answer 1

Following the logic behind @CoryM's answer above :

After trying EVERY solution google came up with on stack overflow, I found what my particular problem was. I had edited my hosts file a long time ago to allow me to access my localhost from my virtualbox.

Removing this entry solved it for me...

I had edited my hosts file too for Python Machine Learning setup 2 months ago. So instead of removing it because I still need it, I use 127.0.0.1 in place of localhost and it worked :

mongoose.connect('mongodb://127.0.0.1/testdb')