Micro front ends and Microsoft
A lot of work has gone into the philosophy and techniques necessary to deliver micro front ends and how you can build architectures that construct an application out of components, using familiar tools. Microsoft has been using the micro front ends approach internally in Azure, but it has also been investing in ways to use it in familiar development tools and frameworks, such as ASP.NET Core and Blazor.
Unfortunately, the current approach does make things a little disjointed; there’s no one way to deliver micro front ends with Azure, so you’ll have to build the necessary architecture yourself. Key technologies to explore include publishing static content to Azure Static Web Apps, as well as the View Components and WebAssembly tools in ASP.NET Core.
Microsoft’s web application frameworks are particularly well suited to micro front ends, as they build on the component model used in XAML desktop applications and the lessons learned in delivering cloud-native applications at scale in Azure. Other tools, such as Azure Static Web Apps, make it possible to build front ends that are suitable for CDNs.
