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Adam L Barrett is a JavaScript and Front-End consultant, a contributor to open source, and avid bike-shedder.
Micro Frontends
Possible QUestions
- What actually counts as a micro frontend?
- What are some tools and techniques...?
- Was there anything you learned only after implementing micro frontends...?
- What are some unforseen challenges?
- What about unforseen benefits?
What are micro Frontends?
Micro Services
- organization around business capability
- independant deployment
- decentralized control of languages and data
Front-end
Integrations for
Vertical
Systems
Integration approaches
- Server Side Includes
- Edge Side Includes
- Client Side Includes
- Iframes
- Web-Components
- devoted frameworks (opencomponents.github.io, single-spa...)
Pros
- Ability teams to iterate and innovate independently
- Smaller, more cohesive and maintainable codebases
- Ability to organize teams around business units or products
- More scalable organizations with decoupled, autonomous teams
Cons
- Browsers may end up downloading multiple frameworks & duplicate code
- Needing to have many different applications running in development to test a complete experience
- Tracking and debug problems across the entire system
- Dealing with versioning across the system
- UX Consistency
Pros
Cons
- browsers may end up downloading multiple frameworks & duplicate code
- Needing to have many different applications running in development to test a complete experience
- Tracking and debug problems across the entire system
- Dealing with versioning across the system
- UX Consistency
- Ability teams to iterate and innovate independently
- Smaller, more cohesive and maintainable codebases
- Ability to organize teams around business units or products
- more scalable organizations with decoupled, autonomous teams
Interesting...
Some news for micro frontends from Webpack 5
Module Federation
NOw Let's Chat!
Possible QUestions
- What actually counts as a micro frontend?
- What are some tools and techniques...?
- Was there anything you learned only after implementing micro frontends...?
- What are some unforseen challenges?
- What about unforseen benefits?
Micro Frontends... or not
By Adam L Barrett
Micro Frontends... or not
So, like a decade ago micro-services happened, and it was calamitous for some and hugely successful for others. And guess what? Now, we’re all doing it again with something called micro-frontends. But seriously, are micro-frontends worth the effort? I’m going to show you the pros and cons, some alternatives, and let you know what you’re getting into, so that YOU can decide: "Could my organization benefit from switching to micro-frontends?".
