Micro Frontend Discovery
summary
Argues the missing piece for scalable micro frontends is a discovery mechanism that decouples composition, not tight imports. Uses webpack Module Federation (noting ~5K GitHub stars), packaging microfrontends as tgz/npm artifacts and publishing them to a discovery service (examples: AWS front-end discovery, Medusa, pyrocloud). Composes at runtime via a component registry wrapper (web component), enabling blue‑green, canary and per‑request routing, quick deploys (demo shows ~10s publish), rollbacks and independent staging.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:47Scalability across teams
- 5:01Monoliths to microservices
- 7:29Micro frontends for scaling
- 10:23Strong coupling dangers
- 16:01Service discovery principles
- 18:06Micro frontend discovery service
- 21:39Netflix example and boundaries
- 24:10Development flow demo
- 31:29Discovery use cases
- 32:32Live discovery demo
- 41:00Q&A
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