Microfrontends – decoupled modular frontends

The term microfrontends has obviously become very popular, and this entire book uses it, but to be honest, I’ve always felt it was poorly coined and unfortunately, it has stuck within the community. As mentioned a couple of times, the word microfrontend has led to a lot of misinterpretation, leading to bad architectural patterns that cause more harm than good. A new proposal has been put forward to start calling them composable decoupled frontends (https://microfrontend.dev/), which I think is apt and clearly explains the intent and purpose of what we are building. I really hope the community starts picking this term up and that we collectively all start moving to building and calling microfrontends what they really are and defining what they are really supposed to do.

I’m sure many of you will wonder how simply changing the name helps and what’s really in a name; however, I feel that, in this case, a name...