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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800563568

Length 310 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

React

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Florian Rappl

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

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

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Summary

In this chapter, you learned how server-side composition can help us to bring together micro frontends already on the backend. Using server-side composition, we get the advantages of the web approach without much of the indirection and performance penalty. You've seen that many tools and frameworks exist to help us implement server-side composition swiftly, as well as a more complete example for implementing this pattern from scratch.

Server-side composition makes the most sense for information-driven web applications such as webshops, where fast response times and less usage of JavaScript are important. The complexity of the setup and the required infrastructure needs to be considered before investing in the implementation of this pattern.

The information presented in this chapter should help you to decide in favor of or against using the server-side composition pattern. Following the code derived for implementing the tractor store sample, you can start to create...