Thoughts About Micro-Frontends in 2020

In the last few years, I have seen the term “micro-frontends” become more common than before.

In the world of back-end developers, it’s already more common to split everything into microservices. Thanks to the techniques of Docker, it’s easier than ever to scale the back end into multiple services and instances of those services.

But in the world of front-end developers, it is not that common yet.

In this post, I want to share my thoughts on why I think it could be good to go from a monolithic front-end application to a micro-frontend approach.

Why?

For all those front-end developers who have been building websites or web apps for years in a monolithic architecture, the micro-frontend approach feels a bit off. (Well, that was my first opinion when I discovered it.)

Problems with monolithic front ends