1. Bit

Bit is a unique tool with powerful capabilities for component sharing and collaboration. It allows developers to adopt component-driven development for composing products with smaller, independent components as micro-apps that work loosely together.

It makes it easier for developers to build and iterate on different application parts, as each component is developed with a separation of concerns and released independently.

It’s also simpler for teams to split product ownership and work autonomously side by side, without being coupled in the development process. The organization can distribute responsibilities and efficiently collaborate on components to compose products together at scale.

With Bit, developers design, develop, and test Vue.js components within an integrated development environment with individual source files, dependencies, metadata, and configuration for each component. You can start small by building a new feature outside your project and adding components to your apps, or by extracting and turning an existing feature into independent components.

You can learn and start developing your Vue app using Bit from here.

Features

• Split the development of a Vue app into loosely-coupled components that work as micro apps. Components can be features, UX/UIs, edge functions, logics and anything else.
• Independent versioning and updates per component in your app, allowing teams to gain greater autonomy at scale.
• Support both build-time and runtime integrations, including single-spa and module federation
• Share and reuse your micro frontends between many apps, and orchestrate updates and changes across your apps at the component level.
• Provides a centralized component hub for efficient collaboration within team, with a built-in, automated support for documentation to allow discoverability.
• Support component versioning and dependency management.
• Integrates with testing frameworks, enabling developers to test their Vue.js components independently.
• Support creating component libraries.

Also watch this example: (it’s a React app, but the same implementation applies to Vue.js as well)

2. Single-SPA

Github — https://github.com/single-spa/single-spa

Single-SPA is a powerful tool for orchestrating microfrontends in Vue.js applications. It provides a flexible and scalable approach to building modular applications by allowing different Vue.js applications or microfrontends to coexist and work together seamlessly. The framework-agnostic nature of Single-SPA adds flexibility to integrate with other frontend frameworks, making it a versatile choice for complex projects.

Features:

• Supports multiple frontend frameworks, including Angular and React.
• Controls the initialization, mounting, and unmounting of microfrontends, optimizing performance and resource utilization.
• Provides mechanisms for inter-microfrontend communication and data sharing.
• Simplifies routing and navigation in microfrontend architectures.

3. Vite

Github — https://github.com/vitejs/vite

Vite is a next-generation build tool that enhances development speed and performance for Vue.js applications. It leverages modern JavaScript features like ES modules to significantly reduce the build and compilation time, enabling near-instantaneous hot module replacement (HMR) and fast server startup. With these features, developers can easily build microfrontends with unparalleled speed and performance.

Features:

• Ultra-fast dev server with instant hot module replacement (HMR).
• ES module-based architecture for faster code transformation and bundling.
• On-demand compilation for quick server startup and improved performance.
• Support for TypeScript, JSX, CSS pre-processors, and other modern tools.
• Seamless integration with Vue.js’s single-file components (SFCs) for rapid development.

4. Vue.js Devtools

Github — https://github.com/vuejs/devtools

Vue.js Devtools is a browser extension that provides powerful debugging and inspection tools specifically designed for Vue.js applications. It allows Vue.js developers to inspect component hierarchies, track component states, analyze performance, and easily debug application behaviour.

Features:

• Component inspector for visualizing component hierarchies and relationships.
• State and props explorer to track component data and props at runtime.
• Event listener viewer to analyze event handling and communication between components.
• Performance profiler for identifying performance bottlenecks and optimizing rendering.
• Time-travel debugging to track component state changes over time.

5. Vue Router

Github — https://github.com/vuejs/router

Vue Router is the official routing library for Vue.js, offering powerful routing capabilities for building single-page applications and microfrontends. Its declarative syntax, support for nested routing, and dynamic routing capabilities make it an invaluable tool for creating scalable and maintainable microfrontend architectures.

Features:

• Routes can be configured with associated components, making it easy to map URLs to specific views.
• Supports dynamic routing, enabling developers to create routes based on dynamic data or parameters.
• Offers built-in support for nested routing, allowing developers to create hierarchical and nested UI structures.
• Provides route-based guards to implement navigation guards at the route level.

6. Pinia

Github — https://github.com/vuejs/pinia

Pinia is a modern and elegant state management solution designed explicitly for Vue.js applications, including microfrontends. With Pinia, Vue.js developers can create scalable microfrontends by effectively managing and sharing state across components, improving code organization, and reducing unnecessary coupling.

Features:

• Reactive state management with simple and intuitive APIs.
• Scoped stores for modular and reusable state management.
• Built-in TypeScript support for enhanced type safety and developer productivity.
• Seamless integration with Vue.js’s reactivity system.
• Devtools integration for easy debugging and inspection of state changes.

7. qiankun

Github — https://github.com/umijs/qiankun

qiankun is a powerful microfrontend orchestration framework that simplifies the development and integration of multiple Vue.js microfrontends into a single application. It provides seamless communication, routing, and lifecycle management between microfrontends. With qiankun, Vue.js developers can break down large monolithic applications into smaller, manageable microfrontends that can be developed and deployed independently.

Features:

• Microfrontend composition for integrating multiple Vue.js microfrontends.
• Shared routing and navigation across microfrontends.
• State sharing and communication between microfrontends.
• Independent development, deployment, and versioning of microfrontends.
• Lifecycle management, including mounting, unmounting, and updates of microfrontends.