Motivation
The Feature Hub has been created by Accenture Song as part of our client work. In order to facilitate collaboration and reusability, we decided to publish the core functionality of our micro frontend solution as open source.
Our Requirements for Micro Frontends
The Feature Hub was designed with the following specific requirements in mind:
- Multiple teams with different technologies and knowledge should be able to own, develop, and deploy composable features independently.
- Micro frontends need a way to share browser APIs and resources not intended for shared use (e.g. History, Local Storage).
- Micro frontends must be able to share state to facilitate a consistent UX.
- It should be possible to integrate new micro frontends without deployment of the integration environment.
- For SEO purposes, and to operate existing fat client frontend apps which need
to fetch great amounts of data on boot, server-side rendering must be
supported.
- Because of asynchronous data fetching and shared state changes, the server-side rendering engine needs to be able to determine the point in time at which it can send the fully rendered UI and its corresponding state to the client.
- The server-side rendered UI and its corresponding state must be hydrated on the client without visual impact.
- Micro frontends that are incompatible with the integration environment should fail early, and not just when the user interacts with the specific incompatible feature.