Establishing a decent developer experience

In the previous section, you learned how to ensure that a minimal DX is reached. This is the level of productivity that must be provided to make micro frontends viable. Now, it's time to level up the experience to ensure smooth onboarding for new developers, easier development and bug fixing for all developers, and a good overview of the system for everyone involved.

Centralizing code documentation

One of the challenges in a distributed system is that things are, by definition, quite fragmented. For instance, the definition of an extension slot may live in one micro frontend, but the two extensions entering this slot are defined in two different micro frontends. Jumping between three repositories is cumbersome and impacts visibility. In the end, who should know where these things are written in anyway?

The reason why a monolith faces the problem of visibility less is that all the information is centralized. But our experience...