I would respectfully suggest that this entire approach creates a pathological distributed system, where the client is trying to internally keep track of the sta

I would respectfully suggest that this entire approach creates a pathological distributed system, where the client is trying to internally keep track of the state of a server, but without any of the supervision tools would need to do so reliably. (And, as a bonus, it's doing this with a callback hell) What happens if either one restarts/crashes? What happens if you accidentally launch 2 clients?