Preface

Microfrontends have emerged as a popular architectural pattern for building large, complex web applications by breaking them down into smaller, independent pieces that can be developed and deployed separately. This makes it easier to scale development, accelerate release velocity, and adopt new technologies incrementally.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to implementing micro frontends in practice, from architectural principles and patterns to hands-on examples using frameworks such as React. You will learn how to divide a monolithic application into autonomous micro frontends. We will look at some of the key principles of micro frontends and scenarios where micro frontends may or may not be the right pattern.

We will explore the different patterns of micro frontends and create micro frontends using module federation for client-side rendered apps and server-side rendered apps.

We will learn how to deal with things such as routing and state management when building micro frontends, and finally, we will learn how to deploy our micro frontends on Firebase and on a Kubernetes cluster using Azure.