I don’t understand micro-frontends.

Luca Mezzalira
11 min readMay 27, 2019

I don’t understand micro-frontends.

Yesterday, after coming back from the walk with my dogs, I have seen a few notifications on Twitter where people tagged me asking to share my thoughts on the thread started by Dan Abramov regarding micro-frontends:

If you are following me, you know I’m very passionate about micro-frontends and I’m working with them for a while, I’m also keeping an open mind analysing different approaches and understanding their PROs and CONs.
If you don’t follow me and you are curious about the topic from a technical point of view just check my Medium page, otherwise, there are many other resources on micro-frontends, just searching on Medium or using your favourite search engine.

I won’t be able to cover all the topics discussed in the Twitter’s thread but let’s start from the beginning and see if I can help to add a bit of context (you are going to hear this word more and more during this article😁) to the micro-frontends topic.

Disclaimer

First of all and foremost, I’m not writing this post for blaming or attacking anyone or even for starting a social flame, I respect any point of view, sometimes I share the same point of view of other people and sometimes not, this behaviour brings on the table innovation and new ideas so I’m totally up for it.

Considering a few people mentioned my name in this is tweet started by Dan, I’d like to share my thoughts because I truly believe we can have a genuine discussion about micro-frontends with great benefits for everyone covering common questions that I receive weekly on socials, my personal email, after my presentations and so on.
Other people got in touch with me regarding the aforementioned tweet: I didn’t reply straight to the tweet because discussing an interesting topic like this one in 280 characters is really limiting and prone to be misunderstood or…

Luca Mezzalira

Principal Serverless Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, O’Reilly Author, International Speaker