Micro Frontends: a deep dive into the latest industry trend.

Image from https://medium.com/@tomsoderlund/micro-frontends-a-microservice-approach-to-front-end-web-development-f325ebdadc16

Patrick, a friend of mine in the web development industry, recently alerted me to the existence of the micro frontend design pattern, and specifically the mini-Twitter-storm it's generating:

Dan Abramov

@dan_abramov

I dont understand micro-frontends.

03:48 AM - 26 May 2019

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Dan Abramov

@dan_abramov

The problems theyre supposed to solve sound to me like theyre already solved by a good component model. So is this solving an organizational issue rather than technical one? Such as if two teams cant agree on anything, even shared infra.

03:56 AM - 26 May 2019

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Not to be partial, there are also many on the other side of the fence arguing for this pattern:

Joel Denning

@joelbdenning

@dan_abramov Im a maintainer of @Single_spa, a framework for microfrontends.

They are microservices in the browser. Meaning separately built and deployed frontend apps that can choose their own framework and libs.

The purpose is organizational scaling and avoiding framework lock-in.

06:02 AM - 26 May 2019

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I sat down with Patrick and we explored this issue in-depth, evaluating both sides of the argument. You can find the whole video attached below:

Happy coding!

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