Aplicação do estilo arquitetural Micro Frontend: um estudo de caso

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a constant growth software development, in a context of frequente changes, new business rules that are generating even larger applications. Several architectural patterns have emerged recently as well, and this work explores the concept of Micro Frontend. The main goal of the work is to analyse the use of this architectural pattern in the development of modern applications, and to identify the impacts caused by using Micro Frontend. We conducted a narrative review of the state of the art, in which we found a few studies concerning the usage, benefits and challenges of Micro Frontends. From this perspective, a case study with a real project built by the UTFPR Software Factory. During the case study, the processes of construction using Micro Frontends are demonstrated in detail. By applying the divisions by business responsibility in the construction of the system it is expected that the result will be small and modular applications. To evaluate the architecture used in this study, maintainability metrics are applied to identify if there were improvements in the case study. It was concluded that when using Micro Frontend the maintainability metrics have equal or approximate means and variances.