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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

Chapter 3: Deployment Scenarios

In the previous chapter, we looked at common challenges and pitfalls when applying micro frontends. Even though those issues make our life a bit more complicated, it's quite often a necessary evil to get the desired benefits: improved scalability in terms of development teams. The life cycle part—where this benefit can be best seen—is in deployment.

Monoliths come with a single way of deploying: all or nothing. This means that the full business logic is rolled out in a single activity. The reason why monoliths scale worse in development than their micro frontend counterparts is that they come with these larger releases. Very often, large releases result in longer release cycles. After all, testing and verification need to happen too.

For micro frontends, we have a lot of options for creating deployment pipelines. Even here, we can leverage a single pipeline. Alternatively, we can also use the other extreme of the spectrum: having...