[Solved] Docker Meteor development setup still connecting to local database

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I am trying to setup a docker-compose setup for my meteor app. the docker-compose is this

version: '2'
services:
  web:
    build: docker/web
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    volumes:
      - .:/home/meteor/app
    container_name: newkeyz-web
    links:
      - mongo
    environment:
      - MONGO_URL=mongodb://mongo:27017/meteor
    command: ["meteor","npm","start"]
  mongo:
    image: mongo
    volumes:
      - ./data:/data/db
    ports:
      - "27017:27017"

When the container starts it does start with the right command -

newkeyz-web | > newkeyz@1.9.5 start /home/meteor/app
newkeyz-web | > MONGO_URL=mongodb://mongo:27017/meteor meteor --settings settings.json

But the meteor app still tries to connect to the local mongodb instance

MongoError: failed to connect to server [127.0.0.1:3001]

I’ve tried all the different ways of specifying the mongo_url in the command

export MONGO_URL=mongodb://mongo:27017/meteor && meteor --settings settings.json

MONGO_URL=mongodb://mongo:27017/meteor meteor --settings settings.json

meteor --settings settings.json

I even have a ENV in the Dockerfile but no luck

ENV MONGO_URL mongodb://mongo:27017/meteor

What am i doing wrong? Any pointers would be much appreciated.

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found the problem. it was the agenda npm init code that was trying to connect to local mongodb