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The Art of Micro Frontends

By : Florian Rappl
Book Image

The Art of Micro Frontends

By: Florian Rappl

Overview of this book

Micro frontend is a web architecture for frontend development borrowed from the idea of microservices in software development, where each module of the frontend is developed and shipped in isolation to avoid complexity and a single point of failure for your frontend. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will take you through the patterns available for implementing a micro frontend solution. You’ll learn about micro frontends in general, the different architecture styles and their areas of use, how to prepare teams for the change to micro frontends, as well as how to adjust the UI design for scalability. Starting with the simplest variants of micro frontend architectures, the book progresses from static approaches to fully dynamic solutions that allow maximum scalability with faster release cycles. In the concluding chapters, you'll reinforce the knowledge you’ve gained by working on different case studies relating to micro frontends. By the end of this book, you'll be able to decide if and how micro frontends should be implemented to achieve scalability for your user interface (UI).
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Hive - Introducing Frontend Modularization
6
Section 2: Dry Honey - Implementing Micro frontend Architectures
14
Section 3: Busy Bees - Scaling Organizations

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how others approached the problem of introducing a micro frontend solution. You saw that the business factor always plays an important role in how technical decisions are made and what the micro frontend solution should look like. In contrast, teams being empowered by increased modularization is usually one of the key outcomes of a development experience.

Using micro frontends gives business a faster time to market, without having to wait for long release cycles and unrelated features to be implemented. If the domain is decomposed properly, then every module not only makes sense, but can truly live on its own. Using patterns such as extension components, a UI can be composed dynamically and always adjusts perfectly to the available functionality.

Micro frontends are as much a technological challenge as an organizational one. Communication with the stakeholders, as well as between the individual teams and different roles within a team, has...