Micro-FE Architecture: Webpack 5, Module Federation, and custom startup code.

Zack Jackson
6 min readOct 1, 2020

Advanced implementation tactics to attach a startup sequence to micro-frontend applications designed using Module Federation.

I’ll get this out the way right from the start, something that’s been requested hundreds of times now. You can set webpack_public_path dynamically (not hardcoded in the webpack config) with startup code, but there are easier solutions now built into webpack 💯 for dynamic public paths. Startup code has more advanced possibilities, but for the sake of introduction- I’m…

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Zack Jackson

Infra Architect @ ByteDance. Creator of Module Federation. Specializing in Bundler and Javascript Orchestration at scale.