Building Micro Frontends with React 18

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Introducing Microfrontends

We are coming full circle with microfrontends! During the Web 1.0 era, websites primarily comprised single pages built in ASP, JSP, or PHP, where we could make changes to each individual page and upload it to a server via FTP and it was immediately available to consumers. Then came the Web 2.0 era and the notion of web apps and Single-Page Apps (SPAs), where we compile, transpile, and deploy large monolithic apps. Now, we seem to be going back to working with smaller apps and pages.

The early 2000s brought in the era of Web 2.0 and the notion of web apps. A few years later, JavaScript frameworks allowed you to build SPAs that updated instantly and didn’t reload a new page each time the user clicked on a link or a ...