Overcoming the Implementation Challenges of Micro-Frontends

A comprehensive guide of the micro-frontend architecture and implementation challenges.

Prompted and edited by the author.

Micro-frontends represent a paradigm shift in how we think about building web applications, offering a path to truly decoupled, domain-aligned UI components. Despite their potential for enhancing scalability and flexibility, implementing micro-frontends comes with its set of challenges. In this article, I will present the key concepts, why they are relevant, and how they can be dealt with to have a successful micro-frontend architecture.

Before discussing how micro-frontends work and the patterns we can apply, it’s important to first talk about two things: Domain-Driven Design and microservices. We’ll only briefly introduce the former, as it’s necessary to understand where this methodology fits. The latter, microservices, will be explored to comprehend the needs of a ‘micro’ architecture, and since these needs are already addressed in microservices, it will help us better understand what we need to do at the micro-frontend level.

Domain-Driven Design

The Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is a software construction methodology that is divided into two fundamental parts: strategy and tactics. Tactics are what everyone…