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20 Jun 15:34

Micro Frontends

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the microservices architectural style, which has become popular due to its ability to allow customer-oriented teams to build and deploy software independently. A common problem such teams face, however, is how to integrate their work into the user-interface, since these are often monolithic frontend codebases.

It should be no surprise that an approach to handle this has developed that's called micro frontends, which allows teams to independently deploy their user-interface into skeletal front end application. My colleague, Cam Jackson, has been using this approach and has pulled together an article to explain further why and how to do this. It digs into the benefits and downsides of the approach, implementation approaches, and a small but detailed example.

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