Micro Frontends are the next logical step in the microservices journey. The benefits of micro Frontends include faster delivery and better quality. However, it does come with challenges such as scalability, maintenance, and testing
Micro Frontends are the next logical step in the microservices journey.
Micro Frontends are the next logical step in the microservices journey. When you're building or maintaining a complex web application, it's important to compartmentalize as much complexity as possible. While some applications will have many different components that need to be maintained separately, it's still more cost-effective and time-efficient for developers to work on smaller chunks of code at once rather than large swaths of code that can't be easily understood or modified by a single developer.
Micro Frontends allow developers to break down an application into smaller pieces without losing their overall structure and design patterns. As you add Micro Frontends together with other microservices, you'll get an even greater sense of understanding about how your entire application works together—and what parts could use improvement along the way, too!
The benefits of Micro Frontends
There are a number of benefits to Micro Frontends. Here are some of the main ones:
Better performance. Smaller code chunks load faster because they have fewer resources to load and process. The browser doesn't have to download as much information in order for your app to work, so it's able to start loading content sooner. This leads to shorter wait times for users and a better user experience overall.
Less code equals fewer bugs and easier maintenance. When you have less code per page, it's easier for developers and designers on your team (or even yourself) to figure out what's happening — there aren't as many lines of code that could cause issues or need updating over time, so less work is required in general! This means fewer headaches when trying something new or fixing broken functionality later down the line; just make sure everyone involved understands how everything fits together before making changes so nothing gets messed up along the way!
Micro Frontends challenges
Micro Frontends are a great way to build a scalable, high-performance web application. But they can also be challenging to build and maintain. To get it right, you'll need to do some serious work up front. As we will see later in this post, there are many things that you must consider before embarking on the Micro Frontend journey:
You should have good knowledge of the underlying technology stack (such as JavaScript).
You need to be able to architect your application in such a way that it feels like one cohesive whole instead of being scattered across multiple pages or components.
You must understand all aspects of how CSS works (the cascade rule, specificity and inheritance rules) because if you don't know what goes where then all hell breaks loose!
As the name suggests, a Micro Frontend is a small independent UI application that is built and managed separately from a larger application. This approach allows each independent UI application to be maintained and updated independently of one other. Each Micro Frontend has its own data store (or multiple data stores), such as an SQL database or NoSQL database, which may also be sharded across multiple nodes for scalability purposes. In addition, these Micro Frontends are often built using different frameworks and libraries than their parent applications so that they can use modern techniques that aren't available in older versions of the parent application's framework or library stack (e.g., React vs Angular ).
Conclusion
Micro Frontends are a great new way to build applications. They can help you create maintainable apps, reduce the number of bugs, and increase your team’s productivity. But they also come with challenges that you should be aware of so that you can plan accordingly when building an application using this approach.