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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

Setting up micro frontend projects

Micro frontend projects are just independent web servers that can be reached from the aggregation layer. There are various frameworks and tools that try to make micro frontend development for server-side composition as simple and straightforward as possible.

There are three potential ways to simplify micro frontend development:

  • Using a serverless approach where the whole runtime is already given
  • Providing a scaffolding tool to create project boilerplates
  • Having a sample that can be cloned and adjusted

In general, these three options are not exclusive. It is possible to use a serverless approach, which comes with a project scaffolding option and has some examples available to illustrate how development works.

In the case of Podium, the development of a micro frontend is boosted by using the existing Node.js package @podium/podlet. Keep in mind that Podium tries to be framework-agnostic and could also be used without this...