When to Use Microfrontends? (and When to Avoid Them!)
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The talk examines when to adopt microfrontends and when to avoid them, by comparing patterns, limits and alternatives to prevent mistakes made with microservices. It reviews concrete approaches and technologies — product-level routing for an investment bank, ESI for progressive migration of a recipes site, and Webpack Module Federation to allow specialized frontend teams at an airline — and explains which organizations and tech stacks are (or aren’t) suitable and how to proceed when appropriate.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Team scaling challenges
- 7:09What are microfrontends
- 13:51Module Federation pros and cons
- 19:08When to avoid microfrontends
- 26:52When microfrontends fit
- 29:44Q&A
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