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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