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What Are Design Systems And How They Help Building Frontend Architectures

July 23, 2021
8 mins read
Last Updated May 26, 2023

Companies struggle to deliver a consistent user experience across the frontend as they scale. Design systems have turned out to be a boon for such teams as they lend coherency to user experiences across frontends. In this article, you'll learn about the variations of design systems employed by organizations worldwide and their specific characteristics.

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Software Development

Ending Monorepo Vs Polyrepo Debate

July 22, 2021
6 mins read
Last Updated January 10, 2025

Monorepo vs polyrepo is increasingly becoming an ongoing debate among frontend teams. In this article, we take you through the pros and cons of both these approaches. You'll get to know about the use cases suitable for each of these approaches and have a better idea as to which one you should employ.

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How Paypal, Walmart, and Farfetch Leveraged Component Reusability to Scale Frontend

July 21, 2021
4 mins read
Last Updated January 07, 2025

Component reusability is one of the common buzzwords in application development, which decides the extent to which a component can be reused within an environment. For starters, it eliminates code duplication, helps maintain consistent structure across different frontends, improves application development efficiency, and makes code testing better.

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Software Development

Building a Scalable and Maintainable Front-End with Component-Based Architecture

July 20, 2021
4 mins read
Last Updated January 10, 2025

In 2013, Facebook introduced ReactJs and changed the way developers built front-end applications. With its Component-Based Architecture (CBA), developers could divide the application features into smaller pieces and then encapsulate them to form autonomous and independent systems. Over time, using Component-Based Architecture for designing and developing the front-end applications became best practice as development teams realized its benefits.

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Experience Design

Composing UI to scale – How Dazn, Vonage, and SmallCase do it.

July 19, 2021
4 mins read
Last Updated January 09, 2025

Micro frontend architecture presents an efficient way to scale frontend. However, frontend teams often find themselves confused as to which micro frontend composition technique to employ. In this article, we assess all three composition techniques taking examples of companies using them. Keep reading to find out which strategy is most suitable for your organization.

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Experience Design

How to Align Your Front-End Team Structure with Architecture

July 18, 2021
6 mins read
Last Updated January 16, 2024

Scaling up from a startup is a major transition for any organization. It is no secret that a company's engineering culture plays a crucial role in achieving the required scale. Companies generally follow various models/methodologies under the software development life cycle (SDLC) to modify the development culture. However, developers can get clogged in dependencies and tedious discussions with other departments without the practice of responsibility and ownership.

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Software Development

Technical Debt At Frontend: How to Identify and Mitigate it

July 12, 2021
7 mins read
Last Updated January 10, 2025

Technical debt slow development life cycles and even brings some of them to a screeching halt. And while CTOs and project managers devote enough attention to technical debt at the backend, nothing much has been done about the frontend. In this article, we'll understand all the nuances of technical debt at the frontend and learn ways to minimize it.

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Software Development

Top 8 Frontend Trends Organizations are Embracing in 2024

June 14, 2021
6 mins read
Last Updated January 31, 2024

New frontend trends do not pop out of the blue in the software world. The trends become popular when either a prominent organization has adopted it, or there have been promising and evidential incentives to embrace the trend. Given that it is imperative to keep a tab on the changing requirements, let us dive into some of the top frontend trends organizations are embracing in 2021.

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Software Development

Micro Frontend Architecture: The Newest Approach To Building Scalable Frontend

June 10, 2021
7 mins read
Last Updated January 10, 2025

The micro-frontend architecture has slowly but gradually gained popularity and has now become one of the most sought-after frontend development strategies. Developers appreciate the agility and freedom that comes along with this architecture and organizational stability it imparts is making life easier for CTOs worldwide. With multiple implementation strategies and tons of advantages, the micro-frontend architecture seems set to revolutionize frontend development and scaling.

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Software Development

11 Key Principles to Build Scalable Frontend Projects

May 28, 2021
9 mins read
Last Updated April 06, 2023

When Netflix went from less than a million subscribers to over 9 million in 2008, it had a critical decision to sustain that gold rush of new subscriptions without affecting the existing users. While still dealing with database corruption, the company had to rapidly scale the platform to accommodate more users. So, what happened next- did it rebuild the application?

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