860: Module Federation Microfrontends with ByteDance’s Zack Jackson

Wes and Scott talk with Zack Jackson about Module Federation, and the innovative ways it streamlines collaboration across large teams and complex applications. Zack also dives into simplifying microfrontends, optimizing builds with Rspack, and his work at ByteDance.
Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:48 Zach background and role at ByteDance
03:10 ByteDance’s web and native apps How ByteDance Became the World’s Most Valuable Startup

Lynx

ByteDance GitHub

Coze

Lark

MarsCode


06:48 What is Module Federation? Zephyr Cloud


15:49 Evolution from V1 to V2 of Module Federation
24:47 When to consider Module Federation
29:46 How would you publish a utils package in Module Federation?
32:59 How would you do a major upgrade?
36:36 Brought to you by Sentry.io

37:01 Who owns the update process?
39:40 Handling multiple frameworks
42:10 ModernJS and Meta frameworks ModernJS

Rspress


47:20 Does ByteDance have its own JavaScript runtime? NAPI


50:02 Why Zack built Rspack Rspack

Rsbuild


58:15 The future of Rspack and custom bundlers Unpack


01:04:24 Module Federation’s major features
01:07:29 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs
Shameless Plugs Zack: Zephyr Cloud

Midscene.js


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