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The Art of Micro Frontends
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Either you know this already or you'll realize it sooner or later reading this book: micro frontends are not a new idea. Actually, they are a very old idea, dated even before microservices or service-oriented architectures (SOAs) were formed. It's just that the possibilities changed, as well as the expectations. Giving an old idea a new name is an easy trick to raise interest, and it worked.
Going beyond the web, we see plugin architectures as a very common pattern in many user interface (UI) technologies. Actually, some very popular applications such as Microsoft's Office application used them already very early on. While there are some differences to micro frontends, in the end similar goals and challenges have been recorded. As a result, plugin architectures have been popular in web frameworks early on too.
Today, plugin architectures are still super-popular and provide an essential point to almost any larger-scale application, framework...