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Questions tagged [microfrontends]

Microfrontends are small, loosely coupled and independently developed frontend components that can be composed in a flexible way to make a frontend. They are the frontend pendant to microservices and are based on the same principles of breaking down a monolithic system.

Microfrontends are small, loosely coupled and independently developed frontend components that can be composed in a flexible way to make a frontend.

They are the frontend equivalent of microservices and are based on the same principles of breaking down a monolithic system, although not necessarily with the same granularity.

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Redundant code sent down the pipe with Micro-frontends

My understanding of Micro-frontends is that the key problem they solve is in helping enterprises have multiple, possible disparate teams, work on individual components/small-apps that will be used to compose a large web application. Here the key…
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How to implement micro-frontends with Native Apps?

I'm working with Web (react) and Mobile (IOS, Android) teams. And I find that even with a microservices architecture we end up always doing duplicated work at the front end/client level. How to implement a microfrontends architecture that reduces…
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How to delegate the refresh token renewal in a SOA

So, we've got SOA on the backend (BE) and on the frontend (FE) we've got micro-frontends (the separate micro-frontends are loaded as components into the frontend app when needed, so internal process calls between them are possible, unlike the…
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Digging deeper into differentiation and benefits of micro-frontends, module federation, and 'live' application assembly architectures

Our team is exploring microfrontends as part of the suite of applications we currently offer our clients. A few questions come to mind which I'd appreciate thoughts on: I understand how a 'shell' or 'container' app can 'host' various 'remotes' which…
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Supporting multiple javascript frameworks in eventual single application

We are building several applications that will eventually be one front-end application. It is split up into several projects at the moment where each project is managed by its own scrum team. The older applications were built on Angular 1, while the…
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How to handle the co-exist phase of Strangler pattern gracefully

We are consolidating a number of disparate monoliths, redesigning and implementing a greenfield suite of microservices and micro-frontends. The stack is all new, the design is all new - it couldn't be more different to the legacy systems. Things…
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How do you design a micro-app Blazor project?

I have been tasked with creating a unified UI for my current company for our Blazor Apps. We have 15 or so apps and we need to add more. Our current requirements are: UI appears the same The Menu must be dynamically generated from a DB With these…
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Migration from monolithic Spring MVC, JSP, JQuery, Bootstrap frontend to micro-frontend

We are trying to migrate from a monolithic application to a micro-services one. On the backend we did a lot of work and now we start splitting it into REST micro-services with a well defined JSON API. Also we have an Auth service and a gateway. But…
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Does the React (and Vue.js) frameworks support extensibility?

Please forgive me if I am mixing up the terminology here, I'm a bit unfamiliar with it. I wanted to find a way to support extensibility in a web application; I wanted a web application that was similar to Microsoft Azure DevOps, where in the web…
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Lead developer wants to use a micro-frontend design pattern. Are my concerns valid?

I'm a React developer at a large company working on an enterprise application which draws on a large amount of data, but performs a very specialized task and has only a handful of internal users. The entire front end is to be built in React, and I…
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how to build microservices that also have GUIs

In a microservices architecture where each component does one thing, how do you handle GUI logic? How do you avoid building a front end web application that has a lot of smarts built into it where it knows some of the internal workings of each…
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Options for sharing frontend workflows across disparate applications

I am working on a form building feature that will be used across different applications within our organization. Since each app has a slightly different stack we are planning to implement this feature as its own service. It will be hosted separately…
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Micro Frontend architecture and different teams

I often get the argument that, if only a single team is working on the UI development, then the UI should not be developed as a set of Micro Frontends, with each one representing a subdomain. I would agree with the higher maintenance argument of…
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