You're reading from The Art of Micro Frontends Build websites using compositional UIs that grow naturally as your application scales

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800563568

Length 310 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

React

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Florian Rappl

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Hive - Introducing Frontend Modularization

2. Chapter 1: Why Micro frontends? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Common Challenges and Pitfalls

4. Chapter 3: Deployment Scenarios

5. Chapter 4: Domain Decomposition

6. Section 2: Dry Honey - Implementing Micro frontend Architectures

7. Chapter 5: Types of Micro Frontend Architectures

8. Chapter 6: The Web Approach

9. Chapter 7: Server-Side Composition

10. Chapter 8: Edge-Side Composition

11. Chapter 9: Client-Side Composition

12. Chapter 10: SPA Composition

13. Chapter 11: Siteless UIs

14. Section 3: Busy Bees - Scaling Organizations

15. Chapter 12: Preparing Teams and Stakeholders

16. Chapter 13: Dependency Management, Governance, and Security

17. Chapter 14: Impact on UX and Screen Design

18. Chapter 15: Developer Experience

19. Chapter 16: Case Studies

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As with all the other patterns, we start our journey into SPA composition with a look at its architecture. Then we follow the essential steps to come up with a sample implementation. Finally, we look at potential enhancements for the derived sample.

The architecture

We've already seen how mini-applications can be hosted in Web Components. SPA composition takes this idea a step further. Instead of relying on Web Components to handle the lifecycle of mini-applications, a custom loader script is used.

As shown in Figure 10.1, the pattern is quite similar to client-side composition...