Evaluating Micro Frontend Approaches for Code Reusability

Abstract

The term micro frontend is relatively new, and it is a continuation of the microservice architecture on the client-side. This paper researches the possibility to use micro frontend architecture for frontend code reusability. The goal of this paper is to achieve code reusability by providing a good organizational structure by using a micro frontend approach. Reusing the code should help to increase the time to market and allow for better scalability. The paper starts by overviewing the base characteristics of domain-driven design as one of the key concepts behind micro frontend architecture. It continues with evaluating existing micro frontend architectures by a set of defined qualitative attributes. Lastly, it uses the findings from the evaluation in building a technical solution. The implementation process can be divided into two phases: decomposition of an existing frontend application; reusing the code by integrating the decomposed components in a new micro frontend application. The results of the implementation process should confirm the micro frontend approach for code reusability.