An overview of micro frontends
A micro frontend setup is one where multiple frontend applications or components are composed. This is akin to microservices, where a micro frontend would encapsulate a subset of functionality, or “bounded context.”
For example, in an e-commerce setting, we might have a “search” micro frontend and a “cart” or “checkout” micro frontend.
Figure 6.1: A simplified micro frontends diagram
We’ve now introduced the micro frontends architecture; next, we’ll see at the key benefits micro frontends deliver.
Key benefits
The benefits of the micro frontend patterns are similar to microservice benefits. They usually come in the sociotechnical aspect of development.
Each micro frontend can use a different set of technologies, which means the right tool for the job can be selected. A very page-load performance-sensitive page might use a different stack than...
