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The Art of Micro Frontends

You're reading from   The Art of Micro Frontends Build highly scalable, distributed web applications with multiple teams

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835460351
Length 356 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:The Hive – Introducing Frontend Modularization FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Why Micro Frontends? 3. Chapter 2: Common Challenges and Pitfalls 4. Chapter 3: Deployment Scenarios 5. Chapter 4: Domain Decomposition 6. Part 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. Part 3: Bee Brood – Implementation Details
15. Chapter 12: Sharing Dependencies with Module Federation 16. Chapter 13: Isolating CSS 17. Chapter 14: Securing the Application 18. Chapter 15: Decoupling Using a Discovery Service 19. Part 4: Busy Bees – Scaling Organizations
20. Chapter 16: Preparing Teams and Stakeholders 21. Chapter 17: Dependency Management, Governance, and Security 22. Chapter 18: Impact of Micro Frontends on UX and Screen Design 23. Chapter 19: Building a Great Developer Experience 24. Chapter 20: Case Studies 25. Index 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

Achieving independence with SystemJS

SystemJS is a pluggable module loader that is capable of dealing with a variety of formats. It describes itself as a dynamic ES module loader with extra functionality such as Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD) and import map support, or hooks to introduce, such as a custom resolution mechanism.

Unlike the previously discussed solutions (Module and Native Federation), SystemJS is almost entirely a runtime construct. However, since the runtime construct relies on a certain structure in the code, we might still want to use some tooling for obtaining valid SystemJS modules. For instance, using the webpack bundler, we need to change the output format to system. Generally, we do not need a bundler at all and could write valid SystemJS modules ourselves, too.

For example, take the following code, which will not be handled by any bundler and could be used directly:

System.register(['react'], function (_export, _context) {
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