A Brief Review of Micro-frontends

In this paper, a brief review of micro-frontends is presented. The paper discusses the idea behind the micro-frontends architecture and depicts that it is an extension of microservices to the frontend. Micro-frontends solve the problems caused by existing monolithic frontends. The paper discusses the various approaches to compose micro-frontends and gives a review on the existing systems that use micro-frontends. The benefits and drawbacks of micro-frontends are also presented. Micro-frontends have a great potential in developing frontend software if the core ideas are implemented effectively.