No Username specified in startup packet - node.js

Question

I am opening up a project from a year and a half ago and my local PostgreSQL database is not working. I am using a react front end, with a Node.js back end. The Node module I am using to connect with the local database is pg.pool. The error I get when I submit the data through pg.pool is:
Error with query for user error: no PostgreSQL user name specified in startup packet
I was reading on the internet and apparently the client has to submit a username to the backend for the Database to open up. The internet suggested opening the pg_hba.conf file and checking that the users are correct, but I checked the file and the users for the PostgreSQL is set to all, so I don't think that is the problem. Here is that file:
# TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local all all scram-sha-256
# IPv4 local connections:
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 scram-sha-256
# IPv6 local connections:
host all all ::1/128 scram-sha-256
# Allow replication connections from localhost, by a user with the
# replication privilege.
local replication all scram-sha-256
host replication all 127.0.0.1/32 scram-sha-256
host replication all ::1/128 scram-sha-256
Here is my pool.js file that connects the node server to the postgresql instance running locally, it uses a if else statement incase I want to connect locally or in case I want to connect to heroku:
const pg = require('pg');
const url = require('url');
let config = {};
if (process.env.DATABASE_URL) {
// Heroku gives a url, not a connection object
// https://github.com/brianc/node-pg-pool
const params = url.parse(process.env.DATABASE_URL);
const auth = params.auth.split(':');
config = {
user: auth[0],
password: auth[1],
host: params.hostname,
port: params.port,
database: params.pathname.split('/')[1],
ssl: { rejectUnauthorized: false },
max: 10, // max number of clients in the pool
idleTimeoutMillis: 30000, // how long a client is allowed to remain idle before being closed
};
} else {
config = {
host: 'localhost', // Server hosting the postgres database
port: 5432, // env var: PGPORT
database: "workout_app_prime", // CHANGE THIS LINE! env var: PGDATABASE, this is likely the one thing you need to change to get up and running
max: 10, // max number of clients in the pool
idleTimeoutMillis: 30000, // how long a client is allowed to remain idle before being closed
};
}
// this creates the pool that will be shared by all other modules
const pool = new pg.Pool(config);
// the pool with emit an error on behalf of any idle clients
// it contains if a backend error or network partition happens
pool.on('error', (err) => {
console.log('Unexpected error on idle client', err);
process.exit(-1);
});
module.exports = pool;
Other relevant facts: yesterday morning working on a different project my computer crashed, PostgreSQL wasn't working when I tried to reopen that project because the project didn't terminate correctly, So I deleted the .pid file and restarted the computer then it started working.
When I made this database a year and a half ago I was running postgreSQL 12, now I am on 13.
I am running on Mac OS 10.15, idk if that is relevant.
Anybody have any ideas? Thanks!