When building a monolithic frontend, a single codebase often handles the entire user interface. While initially straightforward, monolithic designs can falter as your application grows:
- Scaling Challenges: Larger teams face frequent merge conflicts, slower CI/CD pipelines, and dependency headaches.
- Lack of Independence: Changes in shared components can inadvertently impact unrelated parts of the application.
- Resilience Issues: A single failure could bring down the entire app.
Enter Micro-Frontends. This architecture decouples your frontend into independently managed, deployable units. While traditional web components struggle with cross-framework communication and lifecycle management, Vite-based micro-frontends excel. They enable seamless integration of multiple frameworks, offering flexibility, efficient state management, and smooth migration paths for legacy projects.
In this tutorial, we’ll construct a modular news portal featuring:
- A Vue.js-based Header.
- A React-powered Trending section.
- An Angular Highlights section (in progress).
Let’s dive into the nitty-gritty!
