Summary

With this, we come to the end of this chapter. Being a relatively new architecture pattern, the concepts and best practices around microfrontends are constantly evolving.

In this chapter, we saw some of the common pitfalls that teams have fallen into while building microfrontends – namely, things such as not being able to identify the right level at which to break down an app into a micro app, overuse of state management libraries, using multiple frameworks within a micro app, the inability to individually deploy a micro app, overuse of shared common code, and ending up with a build-time integration. Hopefully, this chapter will prevent you from repeating the same mistakes your peers have made in the past.

Another important point to remember is to understand the reasoning behind these best practices, looking at them through the lens of your specific use case. Follow the best practices that apply to your use case and tweak the ones that don’t quite fit it...