Video: What’s With Micro Frontends

A micro-frontend is an architecture that breaks down a large frontend into smaller, independently deployable pieces, allowing for improved scalability, team autonomy, and code maintenance.

Micro-frontends are gaining popularity because they enable independent deployment of frontend modules, improving scalability, team autonomy, and code maintenance.

Module federation allows for the dynamic real-time updates of modules in a micro-frontend architecture, enabling them to be loaded independently during run time.

Micro-frontends can be implemented through build time, where modules are compiled together, and run time, where modules are loaded independently.

Module federation enhances micro-frontend implementation by allowing modules like functions and components to be exposed and loaded at run time, facilitating independent deployment.

The strangle pattern involves building new application features from an existing app that is slated for deprecation, allowing for independent development and future app swapping.

Type safety can be maintained by using module federation 2.0, which allows for automatic extraction of types from federated models, making them part of the exposed manifest assets.

Full site federation allows developers to view and test the entire application as a whole by exporting the host and creating a circular dependency, rather than only working on isolated modules.

Teams should consider using micro-frontends if they face challenges with scalability and independent deployments, as these benefits are central to the micro-frontend approach.

Challenges in implementing micro-frontends include maintaining performance, styling, stage management, testing runtime consumption, and ensuring decoupled testing responsibilities.