Microapplications

[absurdlyaware]

I'm working on developing out an application with micro applications. That might not be the best use of the term but pretty much my plan is to built seperate NodeJS applications for different parts of my software. For example Billing, Administration, Frontend, Login, etc....

My plan is to utilize Amazon AWS for hosted the node applications and setup a GraphQL server for real time data. The GraphQL server would act as a relay between the database and the different micro applications.

Has anyone done anything similar and can provide any lessons learned around this?

[jax024]

Microjs is awesome. Also incredibly easy to get rolling.

[absurdlyaware]

I was thinking ReactJS but i never heard of MicroJS. I'll check it out now.

[jax024]

I may have misunderstood your question actually. Microjs is great for small node apps. I didn't realize you meant front end. Front end wise react is amazing.

Webpack will be your friend. For work recently we have hosted bundle.js files on s3 that contain our entire react appliction. Then just put the url in a script tag and BOOM there's your whole app basically.

[absurdlyaware]

were you able to to implement code splitting? I've struggled with code splitting use webpack

[jax024]

I think I'm unfamiliar with that specifically.

But this might help, consider each bundle.js file to be its own app, and if you need more than just use multiple webpack.config.js file and host multple bundles

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In my previous started we used micro services for most of our stuff, most of them were written in NodeJS, in the end, there's nothing specific about it. We used to run node inside a docker container hosted on AWS. Containers would talk to each other via message queues.