Micro Frontends & me, a love story

I always thought Micro-frontends were stupid, unproven tech, and a fad. After speaking with industry leaders on my podcast about how they implemented it at scale, I realized that it might actually solve some issues we are having in our company.

What you’ll see in this talk

If you build front-ends at scale, this talk walks you through one engineer’s path from distrusting micro frontends to shipping them in production. Dan Neciu shows when they actually pay off, how to split an app into them, and the traps that turn the idea into a mess. You’ll come away knowing whether your own pain justifies the architecture.

• The real reason teams adopt micro frontends: letting each team build, deploy and revert independently without blocking the others.
• Where micro frontends fit beyond deploys: rescuing legacy stacks like Angular 1 piece by piece, absorbing acquisitions, and handling different performance needs.
• How to draw the boundaries using domain-driven design and Conway’s Law, plus the difference between vertical (one micro frontend per route) and horizontal (several on the same page) splits.
• A live demo with Module Federation and a real rewrite of the speaker’s own 50K-users-a-month site, where build time dropped from 6 minutes to 40 seconds.
• The three anti-patterns to dodge: the distributed monolith, nano frontends, and architectural anarchy, with practical tips on shell, state sharing and design systems.