The future of Frontend is on @VercelHQ with Malte Ubl

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Verscell's microrend architecture to move faster, reduce coordination overhead, and deploy with confidence. Stay tuned. Welcome to a brand new season of Microontans in the Trenches, the podcast where we go behind the hype and we share with you stories from the trenches on how to scale your front- end architectures. My name is Luca. I'm your host. Today we have a very special guest. He was here last year and he was pitching to us how he was interpreting

the world of uh micro fronts and how it will be implemented inside uh their platform and I'm talking about Malta uh CTO of Versell and he's here to uh let's say share with us all the promises that made us last year. last year if you didn't watch the episode uh he was talking about having microns as first class primitives inside versel. So this time we'll see if uh he maintain his

promise. So welcome to M. How are you doing mate? Great. Thanks for having me. This is exciting starting a season with you and immediately going into the uh all the goodies that you are releasing with Versel. So uh tell us more. So last year you said first class primitive uh for microontent inside versel. Where are we? I did say that I remember um and we have been cooking. So I'm I'm I'm pretty excited where we with where we have

today and where we stand. So I I can explain what it means for Versel to have a first class primitive of of microins. So, Versell has this notion of a project which is basically a website, right? Um, and and a micro front end is in our world essentially composition of multiple projects into a multitude of of websites. And so, obviously, no one's stopping you from doing that, right? Like hand

rolling that composition um with all the tools that are available in the market. But what we've been building is that this form of composition of having effectively multiple applications into one is something that our platform understands. So very concretely what that means is that um I mean we love JSON files. So you put a microphone.json JSON file in your project and you essentially configure how the how this host app

composes out of multiple micro frontlets and there's a few insights we had along the way but um for now I'll just talk about user experience right so if you go into the versal dashboard it now knows that this is not just any projects this project is either composed into a different app to form a microphone in that way or this is the host and so it hosts all these other apps and you know it's just helpful that the platform