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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

Creating a runtime

We've already seen that a runtime forms the centerpiece of a siteless UI implementation. While the runtime forms as an orchestrator when released and running in production, it also provides an emulator to allow local development of new modules.

This way, things such as automatic provisioning, caching rules, and runtime optimizations are all available in production – but they don't reduce developer efficiency during development.

In order to focus on the decisions that matter for our runtime, we should pick an established framework to provide the technical basis. One possible choice is Piral.

Important note

Coming up with a full siteless UI implementation is difficult. It not only requires a model for the app shell that emphasizes local development, but it also requires that the feed service and micro frontend packaging are defined and implemented while adding a custom API with reliability for micro frontends. A quick way around this is...

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