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Micro-frontends and other browser APIs

Author: Natalia Venditto

Date First Published: Wed Jan 04 2023

Other browser APIs we can leverage

As I described in this article, already three years ago, there are quite a few browser native APIs that can helps us compose beautiful and consistent user interfaces, without overhead, and that can be laveraged by independent teams working in decouple frontends.

Here is a list of the most important ones:

Mutation Observer
Intersection Observer
History -especially important to build a custom router and the URL strategy for UX-
Channel Messaging
Web Sockets
Drag and Drop
Picture-in-Picture
Push API

When deciding to use a browser native API, always check the caniuse website to see if it is supported by the browsers you need to support and what is the development status. See the next page for more information.