Frontend Can't Reach the API
TaskFlow's Compose stack is up, but the frontend health check can't reach the API. Fix the service name mismatch so /health returns OK.
Puzzle Overview
A small TaskFlow Docker Compose app lives under /root/taskflow: an `api` service that answers on port 8000, and a `frontend` that proxies health checks to that API. Both containers start, but curling the published frontend health endpoint on :8080 fails because the frontend cannot reach the API over the Compose network.
Your job: diagnose the inter-service connectivity failure, fix the Compose (or frontend) configuration so the frontend can resolve and call the API, and bring http://127.0.0.1:8080/health back to OK.
Skills tested: Docker Compose service DNS, container networking, reading compose YAML and container logs.
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