Michael Geers: Micro Frontends - Think Smaller, Avoid the Monolith, ❤️the Backend | Web Rebels 2018
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Michael Geers loves the open web and enjoys building things. Would describe himself as a full stack developer. At neuland Büro für Informatik he works on taking e-commerce frontends to the next level. Learning new technologies and programming languages inspires him. At home he constructs hardware projects with his kids.
Micro Frontends - Think Smaller, Avoid the Monolith, Love the Backend
Microservices are the backend answer to handling complexity and work efficiently with multiple teams. Many frontend apps are also reaching the size where development gets harder and changing fundamental things is too risky. The software does not fit in one frontend developers head any more. Micro Frontends is a way of cutting your software into pieces that can live on their own and are each operated by an end-to-end team. It’s not microservices for frontend people. Think of it as full stack microservices that come with database and user interface. This solves many issues. One of them is briding the gap between frontend and backend developers.
Integrating the UI of multiple applications in the browser, so that the user still gets a seamless and coherent experience comes with a few challenges. This talk explains the Micro Frontends idea, when this concept is useful and what problems it tries to solve. It’ll also highlight topics that you should think about when you build applications this way.