Micro Frontends & Serverless: Core Technologies for Modular Web Development

📝 Course Introduction

Modern web applications are no longer just monolithic SPAs or traditional client-server systems. Today’s most successful software platforms are built using modular frontend architectures and serverless backends, combining the best of scalability, flexibility, and performance.

This course, "Micro Frontends & Serverless: Core Technologies for Modular Web Development", is your comprehensive guide to mastering two of the most disruptive technologies in modern web development: Micro Frontends and Serverless Architecture.

Whether you are building a modular enterprise-scale frontend, or a dynamic, event-driven backend on AWS Lambda, this course will teach you how to build scalable, composable, and production-ready systems with minimal DevOps overhead.

🧱 What Are Micro Frontends and Serverless?

• Micro Frontends break up a monolithic frontend into smaller, independently developed and deployed pieces—allowing teams to work autonomously, improve maintainability, and scale features faster.
• Serverless Architecture eliminates infrastructure management by letting you deploy code as discrete functions on demand, reducing cost, latency, and complexity while maintaining elastic scalability.

These two paradigms together represent the future of web architecture: modular, distributed, cloud-native, and optimized for developer velocity.

🚀 What You’ll Learn

🔰 Introduction to Micro Frontends

• What are Micro Frontends and why they matter
• Use cases: enterprise dashboards, feature teams, design system separation
• Architecture models: vertical split vs horizontal split
• Micro Frontend anti-patterns and pitfalls

🧩 Implementing Micro Frontends

• Techniques: iframe integration, JavaScript runtime integration, Web Components
• Module Federation with Webpack 5
• Framework-specific strategies (React, Vue, Angular)
• Cross-team collaboration, routing, and communication strategies

⚙️ Build Tools and Deployment

• Using Vite, Nx, Turborepo, and monorepo vs polyrepo considerations
• CI/CD pipelines for independent micro apps
• Lazy loading, prefetching, and performance tuning
• Versioning, isolation, and sandboxing micro apps

🌩️ Serverless Architecture Foundations

• What is serverless? Benefits and tradeoffs
• Key providers: AWS Lambda, Vercel Functions, Cloudflare Workers, Netlify Functions
• Event-driven design and asynchronous architecture
• API Gateway, storage (S3, DynamoDB), and serverless databases

🔧 Building and Deploying Serverless Functions

• Writing serverless functions in Node.js, TypeScript, or Python
• Handling HTTP requests, background tasks, and webhooks
• Securing serverless functions with authentication and environment variables
• Logging, monitoring, and error tracking (e.g., with Sentry or CloudWatch)

🛠️ Integrating Micro Frontends and Serverless

• Using serverless functions as BFF (Backend for Frontend) for micro frontends
• Deploying with Vercel, Netlify, or AWS SAM
• Edge Functions and streaming SSR for Next.js/Nuxt.js micro frontends
• Global routing, authentication, and data fetching at the edge

🧠 Advanced Topics and Best Practices

• Domain-driven frontend design
• Micro Frontend orchestration with Single SPA or custom routers
• Distributed state management across micro apps
• Serverless scalability, cold start optimization, and pricing strategies

🎯 Who Is This Course For?

This course is ideal for:

• Senior frontend or full-stack developers looking to scale applications
• Engineers working in large, distributed teams or microservice backends
• Freelancers and indie developers building cloud-native, low-cost platforms
• Technical leads and architects designing future-proof web systems
• Anyone interested in the intersection of modern frontend and cloud functions

💡 Why This Course Is Different

Unlike fragmented tutorials, this course bridges two powerful disciplines—frontend modularity and backend serverlessness—into a cohesive, real-world architecture.

You’ll learn not only the theory but also hands-on implementation:

• Micro frontends with React/Vue + Module Federation
• Serverless APIs with AWS Lambda/Vercel/Netlify
• Real projects combining frontend composition and serverless execution