"Then, 10 years later, when we started to see the benefit of microservices in terms of what they can give you to the sociotechnical system that you work on, there was a movement towards, what can we do in other layers? In 2015, or better, 2016, Thoughtworks coined the word micro-frontends. Because we realized the fact that in the past, we had quite a lot of challenges to maintain large code bases on the frontend, like it was happening on the backend."
"On the frontend, the first thing that you think about is, ok, so I have this view. Let me split it in components. Those are micro-frontends because now I can load them at runtime. Unfortunately, not quite. Very often, people think that micro-frontends are basically just components that are loaded at runtime. They are way more complex than that. I will walk you through that."
Micro-frontends extend microservice principles to frontend development, enabling teams to own independent frontend slices alongside microservices and data APIs. Autonomous teams can expose real-time data APIs and manage microservices and micro-frontends to reduce centralized coordination. The frontend presents distinct challenges compared with backend systems due to less structured practices and user-interface concerns. Splitting views into components and loading them at runtime does not by itself fulfill micro-frontend principles; true micro-frontends require addressing integration, ownership, deployment, and runtime complexity. Data mesh and micro-frontend adoption together aim to create fully autonomous teams, but frontend-specific technical and organizational challenges must be solved.
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