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

Learning Path

This course follows a systematic roadmap:

Basic Concepts → Architecture Design → Micro-application Development → Technology Stack Integration → Lifecycle and Communication → Performance and Optimization → Advanced Engineering Practices.

Basic Concepts → Architecture Design → Cloud Function Development → Event-Driven Development → Microservices and Multi-Cloud Integration → Performance Optimization → Enterprise-Level Practice. The content is divided into seven stages:

1. Micro-frontend Concepts and Development Background
2. Core Architecture Design and Implementation Patterns
3. Micro-application Development and Independent Deployment
4. Technology Stack Diversification and Framework Integration
5. Micro-frontend Lifecycle and Cross-Application Communication
6. Performance Optimization, Resource Isolation, and Security Strategies
7. Advanced Engineering, CI/CD, Monitoring, and Enterprise-Level Practices
8. Serverless Basic Concepts and Principles
9. Core Architecture Design and Patterns
10. Cloud Function Development and Independent Deployment
11. Event-Driven Development and Asynchronous Processing
12. Microservice Integration and Multi-Cloud Platform Practice
13. Performance Optimization, Monitoring, and Security Strategies
14. Enterprise-Level Application Practice and Best Practices

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

Table of contents

• Lesson 01-Micro Frontend Basic Concepts
• Lesson 02-Micro Frontend Technical lmplementation Basics
• Lesson 03-In-Depth Analysis of Mainstream Micro Frontend Frameworks
• Lesson 04-Micro Frontend Engineering Practices
• Lesson 05-Advanced Features and Patterns in Micro Frontends
• Lesson 06-Micro Frontend Performance Optimization
• Lesson 07-Micro Frontend Architecture Design
• Lesson 08-Micro Frontend Communication and State Management
• Lesson 09-Micro Frontend Practical Project
• Lesson 10-Micro Frontend Ecosystem
• Lesson 11-Micro Frontend Challenges and Solutions
• Lesson 12-Micro Frontend Testing Strategies
• Lesson 13-Advanced Micro Frontend Architecture Design
• Lesson 14-Micro Frontend Comprehensive Project Implementation
• Lesson 15-Micro Frontend Ecosystem and Future Trends

• Lesson 16-Serverless Introduction
• Lesson 17-Serverless Technical Foundations
• Lesson 18-Serverless Development Introduction
• Lesson 19-Serverless Architecture Components
• Lesson 20-Serverless Development Tools and Frameworks
• Lesson 21-Serverless and Frontend Technology Stack
• Lesson 22-Serverless Architecture Fundamentals
• Lesson 23-Serverless Performance Optimization
• Lesson 24-Serverless Security
• Lesson 25-Serverless Advanced Architecture
• Lesson 26-Serverless Testing and Debugging
• Lesson 27-Serverless Deployment and Operations
• Lesson 28-Serverless Advanced Frontend Applications
• Lesson 29-Serverless Comprehensive Project Practice
• Lesson 30-Serverless Ecosystem and Future Trends