Micro Frontends in Action

4 Server-side composition

This chapter covers:

• Examining server-side composition using Nginx and SSI
• Investigating how timeouts and fallbacks can help when dealing with broken or slow fragments
• Comparing the performance characteristics of different composition techniques
• Exploring alternative solutions like Tailor, Podium, and ESI

In the previous chapters, you learned how to build a micro-frontends-style site using client-side integration techniques like links, iframes, and Ajax. You’ve also learned how to run a shared web server that routes incoming requests to the responsible team for a specific part of the application. In this chapter, we will build upon these and look at server-side integrations. Assembling the markup of different fragments ...