Building Micro-Frontends: Scaling Teams and Projects Empowering Developers

Micro-frontends are a practical guide for software architects, tech leads, and developers to build and deliver artifacts atomically, enabling technical flexibility, hiring and retaining a broad spectrum of talent, and supporting distributed or colocated teams more efficiently. This book explores available frontend development architectures, how microservice principles apply to frontend development, the four pillars for creating a successful micro-frontend architecture, the benefits and pitfalls of existing micro-frontend architectures, principles and best practices for creating successful automation strategies, and patterns for integrating micro-frontend architectures using microservices or a monolith API layer.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 350 pages
\n Publication date: 07 December 2021
\n Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA
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Micro-frontends are a revolutionary approach to developing complex web applications, inspired by the microservices model. This approach allows you to break interfaces into separate features, each managed by different teams of developers. By adopting micro-frontends, software architects, tech leads, and developers can build and deliver artifacts atomically, rather than using a traditional "big bang" deployment.

One of the key benefits of micro-frontends is that they enable your team to choose any library or framework, giving your organization technical flexibility. This flexibility allows you to hire and retain a broad spectrum of talent, as developers can specialize in specific areas of expertise. Additionally, micro-frontends support distributed or colocated teams more efficiently, as each feature can be developed and deployed independently.

In this comprehensive guide, Luca Mezzalira teaches software architects, tech leads, and developers how to build and deliver artifacts atomically using micro-frontends. He explores available frontend development architectures, explains how microservice principles apply to frontend development, and provides a detailed understanding of the four pillars for creating a successful micro-frontend architecture. Mezzalira also examines the benefits and pitfalls of existing micro-frontend architectures, and offers principles and best practices for creating successful automation strategies. He also explores patterns for integrating micro-frontend architectures using microservices or a monolith API layer.

By leveraging micro-frontends, software organizations can achieve greater agility, scalability, and maintainability, allowing them to deliver innovative and user-friendly web applications faster and more efficiently. Whether you are a software architect, tech lead, or developer, this book will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to get started with this technological breakthrough and take your web development to the next level.

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Dimension: 233 x 178 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781492082996\n \n