Issue Docker with redis nodejs

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I have issue is docker-compose up , and error : Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:6379 redis .

Please help me .

this config docker-compose.yml

version: '3.4'

services:
  app:
    image: chatapp/chatappbe:v1
    volumes:
      - ./:/app
    env_file: .env
    environment:
      - NODE_ENV=${NODE_ENV}
      - PORT=${PORT}
      - DATABASE=${DATABASE}
      - END_POINT=${END_POINT}
      - END_POINT_HOME=${END_POINT_HOME}
      - END_POINT_SERVER=${END_POINT_SERVER}
      - END_POINT_PATH=${END_POINT_PATH}
      - REDIS_URL=${REDIS_URL}

      - AWS_ACCESS=${AWS_ACCESS}
      - AWS_SECRET=${AWS_SECRET}
      - AWS_DOMAIN=${AWS_DOMAIN}
      - AWS_BUCKET_NAME=${AWS_BUCKET_NAME}
      - AWS_REGION=${AWS_REGION}

      - FB_ID=${FB_ID}
      - FB_KEY=${FB_KEY}

      - GG_ID=${GG_ID}
      - GG_KEY=${GG_KEY}

    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - mongo
      - redis

  mongo:
    image: mongo:6.0.3
    container_name: chatapp_mongo
    volumes:
      - .docker/data/mongo:/data

  redis:
    image: redis:7.2-rc
    container_name: chatapp_redis
    volumes:
      - .docker/data/redis:/data

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Hello,
127.0.0.1 from within the app-container is NOT the docker-host’s 127.0.0.1.
As your redis- and mongo-services do not provide ports to the docker-host (to the outside world) even the docker-host’s ip-address or the docker-networks-default-ip-address 172.17.0.1 (or on windows the hostname host.docker.internal) will not work.
But you should be able to use the service-name mongo and redis or the container’s-names chatapp_mongo and chatapp_redis to connect to from the app-container.

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Hello,
by default redis port 6379 is not exposed outside world if you are trying to access Redis that way. Redis is available within the container as its starting redis-server on startup. below is one example where internally its using redis and exposes app service.

https://docs.docker.com/compose/gettingstarted/

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You are absolutely right, however, the error message was thrown by the app container and the containers were not using the host network or a common network namespace (network_mode: service:app) so as @matthiasradde answered, other containers should have referred to the redis container by the service name or container name in the same compose project.

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