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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Chapter 10: SPA Composition

In the previous chapters, we had a glimpse of how micro frontends can be composed just using the browser without any active backend support. Most of the time, this way becomes really interesting with increased user interactivity.

Today, single-page applications (SPA) offer this tool-like kind of application that many experiences target. Combining multiple components from standard SPA frameworks such as Angular or React is described with the SPA composition pattern.

The key factor for a SPA is that routing is not done on the server, but rather in the frontend. Routing in JavaScript requires techniques such as taking the URL's hash or controlling the history API of HTML5. Then older features such as AJAX can be used to lazy load the content that should be presented on a page.

In this chapter, we cover the pattern of SPA composition, which allows different SPA frameworks to be contained in the same application.

We'll touch on the following...