An inability to deploy an individual micro app
One of the primary reasons to adopt a microfrontend architecture is to allow certain parts of an application to be independently updated without impacting the rest of it.
This obviously means that we need the ability to build and deploy each micro app independently. If your DevOps build and release pipeline can’t do this, then it’s better to go with Single-Page Application (SPA) architecture.
In the past, many DevOps tools weren’t sophisticated enough to work with monorepos or microfrontends; however, most of the latest tools are better equipped to detect which folders have changed and only trigger the necessary app builds.
Hence, when working on a microfrontend architecture, it is critical that you’ve thought it through and through, including how it will be deployed, as this will impact the choice of tools you select for the DevOps pipeline or the monorepo.
For example, if your DevOps pipelines...