4 Benefits of Micro Frontends

 When it comes to developing a variety of web applications, a micro frontend architecture offers multiple benefits to the application frontend, including the following:

  1. Improved user experience

As more applications are developed and released continuously to the market, a centralized approach towards user experience (or UX) can be a bottleneck. Among its benefits, micro frontends help in “breaking down” the UX and bring a service-oriented approach to the software development lifecycle. 

On their part, app developers can adopt the “microservice-based” philosophy and work to develop both frontend and backend capabilities. Essentially, cross-functional teams are now focusing on delivering an app feature (or use case) developed right from scratch. This, in turn, means better communication between frontend and backend development teams, breaking down “restrictive” departmental silos, and eliminating bottlenecks.

  1. Easier upgrades

As with the innovative microservices approach, micro frontends are designed for better flexibility with product updates and upgrades. By breaking down large monolithic frontend applications into smaller and manageable components, micro frontends can now streamline product changes much faster and efficiently.

With the use of micro frontends, app developers have more flexibility in updating frontend capabilities without any impact on other components of the application, including other frontend components. Iterative product updates can now be released faster, thus optimizing the cost of maintenance.

  1. Organized codebase

As compared to monolithic frontends, micro frontends have a much smaller and “decoupled” codebase like that of microservices. Smaller codebases make it typically easier to navigate, along with lesser coding errors by app developers. Besides that, various application components are clearly defined, making it easier for different development teams to mitigate any risks that can arise from the coupling.

Overall, an organized codebase makes it convenient for app developers to work the code more efficiently and quickly, thus leading to shorter release cycles for process-driven applications.

  1. Reusability

Enterprises build many applications with a common functionality that can be reused. Reusability helps enterprises save considerable time and effort in frontend app development. For example, an eCommerce store reuses the “payment processing” component across multiple applications.

On its part, the micro frontend architecture is useful for enterprises building multiple applications with common workflows. Frontend developers can extract and reuse common elements when working on new workflows or business processes.

Now that we are aware of the benefits of micro frontends, let us look at some of its best practices that can make it effective in modern-day product development.

To know more information here - https://forgeahead.io/blog/the-end-to-end-transformation-of-application-development-from-micro-services-to-micro-frontends/

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