Micro Frontends in Action

6 Communication patterns

This chapter covers:

• Examining user interface communication patterns to exchange events between micro frontends
• Inspecting ways to manage state and discussing the issues of shared state
• Illustrating how to organize server communication and data fetching in a micro frontends architecture

Sometimes user interface fragments owned by different teams need to talk to each other. When a user adds an item to the basket by clicking the Buy button, other micro frontends like the mini basket want to be notified to update their content accordingly. We’ll take a more in-depth look at this topic in the first part of this chapter. But there are also other forms of communication going on in a micro frontends architecture, as you ...