fix: change all occurrences of hard-coded ip address '127.0.0.1' to 'localhost'

Also refactored to make this a constant defined in a single file where it is imported for all other
uses.

fixes #1253

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/electron/ipc-api/localServer.js b/src/electron/ipc-api/localServer.js
index 9b800fdf6..493253e17 100644
--- a/src/electron/ipc-api/localServer.js
+++ b/src/electron/ipc-api/localServer.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { ipcMain, app } from 'electron';
 import net from 'net';
+import { LOCAL_HOSTNAME } from '../../config';
 import startServer from '../../internal-server/start';
 
 const DEFAULT_PORT = 45569;
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ const portInUse = function (port) {
       socket.pipe(socket);
     });
 
-    server.listen(port, '127.0.0.1');
+    server.listen(port, LOCAL_HOSTNAME);
     server.on('error', () => {
       resolve(true);
     });