Company
Date Published
Author
Anthony Giuliano
Word count
1335
Language
English
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None

Summary

As applications increase in complexity, micro frontends have emerged as a popular architectural pattern to efficiently manage and scale large frontend applications by dividing them into independent, modular mini-applications, each responsible for a specific feature or page. This approach, inspired by microservices in back-end development, allows each micro frontend to function autonomously with its own UI, business logic, and data fetching capabilities. The use of web components, which are framework-agnostic, is favored for building these micro frontends due to their interoperability across different frameworks. Stencil enhances this process by allowing developers to create web components with the familiar features of popular frontend frameworks, ensuring that micro frontends are both reusable and easy to integrate into any part of an application. This technique not only reduces duplicate development work but also promotes independent and parallel development, making it a highly effective strategy for managing complex frontend applications.