What are Micro-frontends?

Micro-frontends is the application of the Microservices architecture in the frontend world.

So, what are Microservices?

Microservices, is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of services that are:

• Independently deployable
• Loosely coupled

Services are typically organized around business capabilities. Each service is often owned by a single, small team.

Design considerations

But what’s critically important is designing a good service architecture:

• Identifying services
• Defining their responsibilities
• Their APIs and collaborations.

If you get it wrong you risk creating a distributed monolith, which will slow down software delivery.

So, what are Micro-frontends?

Micro-frontends are basically decoupled frontends. Each micro:

• Has a specific responsibility
• Is isolated (no shared state)
• Is deployed independently
• Is technology agnostic