Micro Frontends in Action

Micro Frontends in Action teaches you to apply the microservices approach to the frontend.

Summary

Browser-based software can quickly become complex and difficult to maintain, especially when it’s implemented as a large single-page application. By adopting the micro frontends approach and designing your web apps as systems of features, you can deliver faster feature development, easier upgrades, and pick and choose the technology you use in your stack. Micro Frontends in Action is your guide to simplifying unwieldy frontends by composing them from small, well-defined units.

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About the Technology

Micro frontends deliver the same flexibility and maintainability to browser-based applications that microservices provide for backend systems. You design your project as a set of standalone components that include their own interfaces, logic, and storage. Then you develop these mini-applications independently and compose them in the browser.

About the Book

Micro Frontends in Action teaches you to apply the microservices approach to the frontend. You’ll start with the core micro frontend design ideas. Then, you’ll build an e-commerce application, working through practical issues like server-side and client-side composition, routing, and maintaining a consistent look and feel. Finally, you’ll explore team workflow patterns that maximize the benefit of developing application components independently.

What’s Inside

-    Create a unified frontend from independent applications
-    Combine JavaScript code from multiple frameworks
-    Browser and server-side composition and routing
-    Implement effective dev teams and project workflow

About the Reader

For web developers, software architects, and team leaders.

About the Author

Michael Geers is a software developer specializing in building user interfaces.

Table of Contents

PART 1 - GETTING STARTED WITH MICRO FRONTENDS

1 What are micro frontends?

2 My first micro frontends project

PART 2 - ROUTING, COMPOSITION, AND COMMUNICATION

3 Composition with Ajax and server-side routing

4 Server-side composition

5 Client-side composition

6 Communication patterns

7 Client-side routing and the application shell

8 Composition and universal rendering

9 Which architecture fits my project?

PART 3 - HOW TO BE FAST, CONSISTENT, AND EFFECTIVE

10 Asset loading

11 Performance is key

12 User interface and design system

13 Teams and boundaries

14 Migration, local development, and testing

Michael Geers is a software developer specializing in building user interfaces. He has written software for the web since he was a teenager. In the last few years, he has worked on various customer projects with verticalized architectures. He shares his experiences on this topic at international conferences, in a series of magazine articles, and runs the site micro-frontends.org.