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Chapter 4. Chef Ravi's Kitchen

Servers and services, and why the kitchen sits behind a wall

Act II · Opening the Doors · with Chef Ravi

Chapter title card with the chapter's host character and the day of the countdown.

What you'll learn in this chapter

  • Explain the difference between the client and the server in one sentence
  • List what must never live in the browser, and check your own app for it
  • Recognise the main kinds of servers and pick a sensible starting setup
  • Move QueueLess's pricing and an AI feature to the server, then prove the ₹0 trick fails

Inside

  1. Two computers, one app
  2. The "never in the browser" list
  3. What a "server" actually looks like in 2026
  4. One kitchen or many?
  5. What AI gets wrong here
  6. Lab: move the money into the kitchen
  7. Prompts for the kitchen
  8. What you've learned
Checking your ticket at the door…