Building micro-frontends with webpack’s Module Federation

The text explores the implementation of micro-frontends in Vue applications using webpack 5's Module Federation, offering a simplified architecture for large-scale web applications. It highlights the concept of micro-frontends, which allows different teams to independently handle specific features or components within an application, ultimately merging them into a cohesive whole. This approach reduces code duplication, improves developer and user experiences, and enables the use of varied technology stacks across teams without compatibility issues. The article provides a detailed guide on setting up two Vue applications, "Company" and "Shop," to demonstrate sharing a header component between them using Module Federation. It also addresses sharing application states, like cart items in an e-commerce scenario, across these federated modules using Vuex. The discussion concludes that while micro-frontends and Module Federation provide significant advantages for large projects with distributed teams, they may not be suitable for smaller applications or businesses.