How Micro Front End Architecture Can Help Your Business!

Introduction

What makes product development so extremely challenging in an organizational context? Synchronization and collaboration are the most important aspects of successful product development. As per recent Gartner research, the IT industry is going to see a 50% increase in collaboration tools and architectures by the end of 2022 vis-à-vis pre pandemic standards.

To facilitate streamlined collaboration for resources in the relevant domains, the product development architecture and processes must provide ways in which it is possible for resources to work together, or separately without issues from one software development team cascading into the other. When it comes to many teams working together to develop and support a large and complex product, a centralized architecture with co-dependent features can slow down a lot of processes – especially those of resolving time-critical issues. This is exactly the challenge that the Micro front-end architecture solves.

You can think of micro frontends as an extension to the microservices architecture to the front end, wherein the application interfaces are separate from each other, managed by different teams, and can be built on different technologies.

What makes Micro Front Ends Different?

If you have services in the back end, and even separate teams that take care of each service, connecting them together in the form of a SPA means that one team cannot work independently from the other. It would mean each team having to be mindful of the other teams’ development activities.

For example, if we have an e-commerce platform with services such as add/remove cart items, listing cart contents, and recommendation system and all are connected to the SPA, it would mean changes to any one of these services means checking the interaction of the other services with it – (Has it caused any errors? Has the user interaction changed?). However, if these three features were to be connected to separate micro front ends, all of them would be separate and independent of each other. Each team involved could handle their microservice separately along with the micro front end. This provides for a much more streamlined and independent framework.

What can Micro Front Ends do for Your Business?

Scale Your Product: Scaling products, especially when it comes to integrating new features or expanding existing features is now incredibly easy with micro frontends. Whenever you need to add something new, you can work exclusively on that service along with its micro frontend, without disturbing anything else in your architecture, Moreover, integrating new services is also much simpler.

Reduced Turnaround Time: With co-dependencies significantly reduced, the scaling of the product we talked about earlier can be done at a much faster rate.

Deploy Independently: Each feature/service that you intend to add/expand on, can now be deployed independently. This could offer a wide array of benefits – separate testing, easy deployment and retraction of pilot features (experimentation), focusing more on the business side of things when it comes to user interaction with features, etc.

Greater Stability: You can provide an optimal performance guarantee to your stakeholders for your application, even when tweaking features and parameters for a particular service or adding new services.

Managing Codebases and Repositories: With the capability of each team handling different features, you can handle documentation, codebases, repositories, etc. for all of your services in neat and accessible storage. This makes technical referencing, code-cleanups, code refactoring, etc. a lot easier for future technical resources.

Easy Hiring of Developers/SMEs: It becomes a lot easier to hire resources and save on their training time. They can be directly integrated into the team working on the technologies and services they are experts at, without having to train them for inter-dependent considerations.

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