Hotfix deployment server

src/server.js

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import http from "http"
 import process from "process"
 import signalbuddy from "signalbuddy"
 
-const host = "127.0.0.1"
+const host = "0.0.0.0"
 const port = process.env.PORT || 3000
 
 const app = express()

[Nayeem Rahman]

@alh1717 0.0.0.0 Doesn't work on Windows :(

(The server starts properly on localhost because node translates it, but you can't browse to it by that name so the terminal link is broken.)

What was the problem? Would localhost work?

[Alexander Harkness]

This is only a hotfix. The issue is that setting the host to 127.0.0.1 or localhost means only connections from localhost can access the server. Obviously this doesn't work for the deployed server - we want all of the internet to be able to connect. 0.0.0.0 is a pseudo-IP that means allowing connections from all interfaces.

Really we need to decouple the binding address (0.0.0.0 for deployment and 127.0.0.1 for development) from the access address (eventually this might be a hostname rather than an IP).