Build a micro-frontend application with React
Blog post from LogRocket
Micro-frontends are gaining popularity in web development due to their ability to allow different teams to work on separate modules of a project without interfering with each other, enhancing maintainability and scalability. This approach extends the concept of microservices to the frontend, enabling a web application to be a composition of features owned by independent teams. Implementing micro-frontends with React is facilitated by tools like create-mf-app, which supports multiple frameworks and allows for module federation, enabling component sharing across different applications. Key advantages of micro-frontends include independent deployment, technology agnosticism, faster development cycles, easier learning curves, and vertical domain ownership, which were previously only achievable on the backend. However, challenges such as styling consistency, state management, and versioning require strategic solutions like using CSS-in-JS libraries, shared state management tools, and webpack's Module Federation. With these solutions, micro-frontends can provide a robust and flexible architecture for modern web applications.