Evolutionary UI: Change as a first-class citizen in the modern frontend world

Allowing for change is especially important when designing your frontend applications, where high user expectations meet the fast-paced JavaScript ecosystem. For example, have you ever tried migrating from Angular to React while hitting your deliverables and without compromising performance? Change is intimidating. In this talk, we will show how the principles of evolutionary architecture can be applied to UI to prioritize changeability. We’ll consider several approaches to making a modern UI application more evolvable, such as the micro-frontends pattern, and examine specific “fitness functions” that will keep you and your team honest to your evolvability goals. We’ll also discuss the tradeoffs you make when you choose a more evolutionary frontend architecture, and provide a framework for thinking about how much future change you’ll need to account for.

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