3. Networking - The Invisible Highway3.3 Ports: The Apartment Numbers
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Chapter 3 · 3.3 Ports: The Apartment Numbers · p. 68
Peter
But wait. . . the server has just one IP address. It runs a React app, a Spring backend, a database, and Redis. How does my request know where to go?
Senior developer
Great question! This is where a lot of developers get confused at first.
Ports. Think of the IP address as a building’s street address. The port is the apartment number.