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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

Exploring communication patterns

Running multiple SPA frameworks independently is a good start, but it's not fully what we'll need in real-world applications. In many applications, we will need to have some form of communication between these – at least on some occasions.

There are three quite important aspects that need to be covered by these communication requests:

  • Sharing some messages, for example, to inform other micro frontends about a specific event
  • Sharing data, for example, to spread knowledge efficiently about shared domain objects
  • Providing components, for example, to bring get functionality from a different domain to a larger UI building block

All of these three aspects can be implemented following the architecture patterns discussed in the next subsections. We'll start with the exchange of events.

Exchanging events

By far the most crucial communication pattern for micro frontends is the usage of events. There is a clear...

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