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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 server-side composition can help us to bring together micro frontends already on the backend. Using server-side composition, we get the advantages of the web approach without much of the indirection and performance penalty. You've seen that many tools and frameworks exist to help us implement server-side composition swiftly, as well as a more complete example for implementing this pattern from scratch.

Server-side composition makes the most sense for information-driven web applications such as webshops, where fast response times and less usage of JavaScript are important. The complexity of the setup and the required infrastructure needs to be considered before investing in the implementation of this pattern.

The information presented in this chapter should help you to decide in favor of or against using the server-side composition pattern. Following the code derived for implementing the tractor store sample, you can start to create...