Chapter 4: Domain Decomposition

In the previous chapter, we've seen that micro frontends offer a broad variety of deployment options. An obvious question is: How do you decide which model to use? The answer to this question lies somewhere between the technical requirements of the project and the team setup. To leverage the team setup in the best possible way, we also need to choose a proper strategy for identifying the scope of the individual micro frontends. This is where the technique of domain decomposition helps.

Domain decomposition allows us to come up with a consistent way of breaking up our problem domain into smaller pieces that can be developed and deployed independently. This may sound simple at first but turns out to be quite complex. Even though the essentials of this chapter are not very technical (or practical) in nature, they should be carefully studied and applied before any actual implementation work. After all, the domain decomposition strategy lays the foundation...