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The Art of Micro Frontends

By : Florian Rappl
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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

Epilogue

This is where your journey into micro frontends ends. Now, it's time to use your knowledge and build outstanding web applications using the techniques, tips, tricks, and practices shown in this book. I hope you gained some crucial insights and enjoyed reading about how to decouple components. Creating independent modules will only work if the necessary groundwork is done. Coming up with a good domain decomposition is always difficult, so don't be alarmed when the first shot needs additional refinement to work decently.

Also, don't forget to evaluate if a micro frontend solution is really needed. A simple monolith cannot be beaten in terms of effectiveness and performance. Choosing micro frontends should be less about the technical challenge and more about the actual business need. Be open in your communication and try to listen to everyone before making a decision in favor of or against micro frontends in general, or a particular architecture style.

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