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Microfrontends split monolithic web frontends into independent, deployable subapplications owned by separate teams. The approach increases team autonomy, independent releases, and technology diversity. It introduces integration, performance, and UX responsibilities that require cross-team governance, standardized contracts and testing to succeed.
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Microfrontends split a frontend into independently developed and delivered parts that together form one user interface.
Microfrontends emerged in web development from the problem of large frontends being changed and released by many teams together. The idea carried the domain-oriented split of distributed systems into the UI and was extended by independent composition; single-spa represents one concrete orchestration approach in that lineage.
Imagine a marketplace with independent stalls: each stall can operate separately, while navigation, payment, and visual language still need to feel coherent to visitors.
A part covers UI, logic, and often delivery for one business capability.
Several frontend parts are assembled in the browser or by a shared shell.
Microfrontends can decouple large frontends and teams, but they add integration, operations, and UX costs that require explicit shared contracts.
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