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The Art of Micro Frontends

You're reading from   The Art of Micro Frontends Build websites using compositional UIs that grow naturally as your application scales

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800563568
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Hive - Introducing Frontend Modularization
2. Chapter 1: Why Micro frontends? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Common Challenges and Pitfalls 4. Chapter 3: Deployment Scenarios 5. Chapter 4: Domain Decomposition 6. Section 2: Dry Honey - Implementing Micro frontend Architectures
7. Chapter 5: Types of Micro Frontend Architectures 8. Chapter 6: The Web Approach 9. Chapter 7: Server-Side Composition 10. Chapter 8: Edge-Side Composition 11. Chapter 9: Client-Side Composition 12. Chapter 10: SPA Composition 13. Chapter 11: Siteless UIs 14. Section 3: Busy Bees - Scaling Organizations
15. Chapter 12: Preparing Teams and Stakeholders 16. Chapter 13: Dependency Management, Governance, and Security 17. Chapter 14: Impact on UX and Screen Design 18. Chapter 15: Developer Experience 19. Chapter 16: Case Studies 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Composing micro frontends dynamically

We briefly introduced the idea of using a central web component registry to lazily load the different scripts required to make the Web Components work. This would indeed be the ultimate solution, as it is lazy yet dynamic. However, to make this fully operational is also not easy. An easier way is to start with a micro frontend registry.

Using a micro frontend registry

A micro frontend registry is similar to the link dictionary introduced in Chapter 6, The Web Approach. However, instead of a server resolution, it would just return paths to all the available scripts.

For example, the following response could be triggered for the tractor store sample:

{
  "scripts": [
    "http://localhost:2001/product-page.js",
    "http://localhost:2002/basket-info.js",
    "http://localhost:2002/buy-button.js",
    &quot...
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