Independently together: how micro-applications improve developer experience + app performance

Is your monolithic SPA slowing down your developers and your app? Learn how micro-applications can restore speed and autonomy for your teams.

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Identifying the pain points of monolithic frontend applications

Large monolithic applications often lead to slow deployment pipelines, poor application performance, and frustrating local development environments.

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How monolithic SPAs create dependencies and failures

The combination of monorepos and single-page applications results in monolithic frontends with single points of failure and complex organizational dependencies.

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Deconstructing the monolith into independent applications

Breaking a monolithic SPA into separate applications for each team or feature allows for independent lifecycles and reduces complexity.

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Defining the core principles of micro-application architecture

A micro-application is a small, independent single-page application dedicated to a single page or user flow, with its own runtime and deployment cycle.

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Key benefits of adopting a micro-application approach

This architecture enables independent scaling, better caching, faster load times, quicker local development, and more efficient CI/CD pipelines.

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Managing shared dependencies and breaking changes

Use a shared internal framework and a dedicated developer experience team to manage dependency versions and coordinate breaking changes across applications.

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Sharing UI components and ensuring design consistency

Maintain visual consistency across independent applications by using a shared design system package and including common elements like navigation as micro-frontends.

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Determining when to use the micro-application architecture

This architecture is most beneficial for large organizations with many teams and engineers working on a single product, not for small teams or projects.

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Implementing global layouts and application routing

Global layouts like headers can be shared as packages or micro-frontends, while routing should use URL paths on a single domain to leverage cookies and local storage.