I have a good bit of experience as a developer, and I still honestly don't understand what micro frontends are.
Andrew Meredith@a4w_m6h
I have seen so many people talking about micro frontends, and I honestly can't tell if there is a single, well-accepted definition of micro-frontend. Can it just be separate SPAs that link to each other?15:55 PM - 29 Oct 2021
Specifically, it seems like they are either just standalone SPAs with links between them, or they are essentially Web Components that are plugged into some site.
Can you all help me out? What are micro frontends? Do you use them? Do you like them?
In my view I see micro frontends as the front end equivalent of microservices.
I also see them as you described, components that are embedded within another SPA, but loaded from a separately deployed url.
You could develop a micro frontend along with a microservice to cover a vertical slice within your domain, enables you to develop and deploy it separately to your main application, so if you need to update it you don’t need to redeploy the entire application, just your vertical