connection ECONNREFUSED when trying to push to neon db

Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:5432
    at __node_internal_captureLargerStackTrace (node:internal/errors:464:5)
    at __node_internal_exceptionWithHostPort (node:internal/errors:642:12)
    at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (node:net:1157:16) {
  errno: -61,
  code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
  syscall: 'connect',
  address: '127.0.0.1',
  port: 5432
}

//drizzle.config.ts
import type { Config } from "drizzle-kit";

export default {
  schema: "./src/server/db/schema.ts",
  out: "./drizzle",
  driver: "pg",
  dbCredentials: {
    connectionString: process.env.DATABASE_URL || "",
  },
} satisfies Config;

import { drizzle, PostgresJsDatabase } from "drizzle-orm/postgres-js";
import { migrate } from "drizzle-orm/postgres-js/migrator";
import postgres from "postgres";

// for migrations
const migrationClient = postgres(process.env.DATABASE_URL || "", { max: 1 });
migrate(drizzle(migrationClient), {
  migrationsFolder: "./migrations",
});

// for query purposes
const queryClient = postgres(process.env.DATABASE_URL || "");
const db: PostgresJsDatabase = drizzle(queryClient);

export { db };