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SCION Microfrontend Platform > Microfrontend Architecture
Web frontends are becoming more and more common, even for complex business applications. To tackle the complexity of enterprise application landscapes, a strong trend towards microservice-based backends and microfrontends on the client-side is emerging. The microfrontend design approach is very tempting and has obvious advantages, especially for large-scale and long-lasting projects, most notably because we are observing an enormous dynamic in web frameworks.
The microservice and microfrontend architecture design approach enables us to form development teams full-stack in line with the business functionality, resulting in independent so-called micro applications. A micro application deals with well-defined business functionality. Its backend services are collectively referred to as microservice and its user-facing parts as microfrontend.
A microfrontend is a term of the microfrontend architecture design approach to developing frontend applications as a composition of small, self-contained components, so-called microfrontends. Each microfrontend focuses on a single business functionality, breaking up hard-to-handle monoliths into parts by allowing independent development, autonomous lifecycles, true code splitting, and the use of different stacks. Microfrontends should be as independent and isolated as possible so that a change in one microfrontend has no impact on other microfrontends.
For the end-user, however, it is still a single application that he loads into his browser. The composition of the microfrontends is entirely transparent to him. By striving for a uniform look and feel of the microfrontends, the user does not even notice that different micro applications are involved.