Example of how using single-spa you can create a micro service front-end and enable multiple applications to work in concert in a unified experience.
Node v8.10.0 npm 6.1.0
- Clone the repo
- Run
npm run install-all - run
npm start - Open running code at
http://localhost:8233/
- People (written in react)
- Planets (written in react)
- Navigation (written in react)
- fetchWithCache (vanilla javascript)
I'm using webpack (a static module bundler) to build each application for our micro-frontend approach. Webpack requires access to everything it needs to include in the bundle at build time. This means when an app that imports a service, for example planets importing the fetchWithCache service, webpack will try to bundle the service into the planets bundle. The built in way to avoid webpack doing this is webpack externals, using externals works really well but to avoid having to include a regex for each service I'm using the postfix to signal to webpack (and developers) that the import is another micro-app/service/front-end. The prefix isn't required if you would rather include a different postfix or none at all it should work, you'll just have to modify each webpack config for externals.
Code splitting is a complicated topic. I'm not going to dive into each facet of it within Webpack, see Webpacks docs for that.
In our project code splitting is further complicated because webpack's module format expects to load more modules from the website root, which will always fail in this project unless webpack is told where to load additional modules. Right now there is a single example of this, done in the people application.
I'm unable to help others implement deployments at this time. For specific deployment help we'll need to discuss consultation fees.