Scaling micro-frontends using Angular elements: Hosting on Azure cloud. The micro-frontends architecture creates a buzz in the web app development world.

There are several open-source and third-party libraries that have become de-facto standards to reduce development effort and keep complexity out. But as applications tend to become complicated over time, demanding on-the-fly scalability and high responsiveness, a micro-frontend architecture using Angular elements serves as the need of the hour in fulfilling these criteria. In this blog post, we discuss the importance of building a micro frontend using Angular elements and hosting it on Microsoft Azure, along with a technical demonstration of how we can create a micro-frontend using Angular.

What Is Micro-frontend Architecture?

Micro-frontend is a design approach in which app developers split the coding task into multiple frontend apps to ease the app development process. This helps many teams to work simultaneously on a large and complex app using a single frontend code. A micro-frontend architecture offers a more manageable, independent, and maintainable code. Using micro-frontend architecture, development teams can easily integrate, innovate, and iterate apps. Importantly, it encourages making changes to apps like write, rewrites, updates, and improvements in an incremental manner. In a nutshell, it allows enterprises to develop and deploy enterprise-level apps with greater accuracy.

If you’re still over the fence about the need to adopt the micro-frontend architecture, let’s take a closer look at what micro-frontend development can mean for your web apps:

Smoother Transition CI/CD

Each app integrates and deploys separately, making the CI/CD process a lot easier. For instance, when you introduce a new feature, you do not have to worry about the entire application since all functionalities are independent.

Stacks and Versions

You can choose to have your stack for each app and have different versions of the same stack. For example, your team can have the flexibility and time to test newer versions of the same stack.

No Code Sharing

When building large apps, most enterprises tend to share code across features but may lead to scaling issues later when bugs and interdependency over the app grow bigger. The good thing is, this does not apply with the micro-frontends as code sharing is not required for every component.

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