5 Best Backend-for-Frontend Tools You Should Be Using

WunderGraph is a free and open-source Backend-for-Frontend framework that allows developers to declaratively turn their data dependencies into a secure, unified, and extensible API exposed over JSON-RPC. It enables the separation of concerns between frontend and backend components, making it an essential solution for modern GraphQL Federation. Istio is an open-source service mesh that makes managing, securing, and shaping all traffic and communication between microservices possible without writing code. AWS Serverless Computing provides a cloud computing model where developers can build and run applications without having to manage the underlying infrastructure. Clerk/Auth.js offers a simple, secure, regularly-audited, best-practices way to add authentication to applications with drop-in components and pages. Axiom, Grafana, and Datadog provide performance monitoring, analytics, and logging capabilities to help developers identify and troubleshoot issues in their applications. NextJS/Remix can be used as a BFF by definition due to its full-stack development features. These tools aim to streamline the development of complex web applications, boost developer velocity, and provide the best user experience regardless of the platforms being supported.