Summary

This chapter detailed how a micro frontend discovery service not only supports the scalability of applications but also simplifies the management of micro frontends. By enabling dynamic onboarding, rollbacks, and A/B testing, the discovery service plays a pivotal role in maintaining an agile and responsive frontend architecture.

By introducing a micro frontend discovery service, you ensure that your solution remains scalable and flexible. Having a dynamic composition of your frontend, as outlined in Chapter 11, micro frontend discovery enables that. Rolling back and dealing with A/B tests in production? This is where a micro frontend discovery service really shines. Tracking back which team published what version of their micro frontend at what point in time? Luckily, a micro frontend discovery service holds the right database for these queries.

In the upcoming chapters, we’ll see how we can efficiently deal with updates to the app shell from an organizational...