glaze-ui
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Glaze UI is an open-source lightweight (~60kb) framework that lets you have multiple Micro Front-End (MFE) applications on the same Single Page Application (SPA). That means you can have different frameworks like React, Angular and Vue running side-by-sid
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Glaze UI
An open-source lightweight (~60kb) framework for micro front-end services (MFE)
Glaze UI
is a framework that lets you have multiple Micro Front-End (MFE) applications on the same Single Page Application (SPA). That means you can have different frameworks like React, Angular and Vue running side-by-side. Including different versions of the same framework.
It consists on a Glaze UI shell application that can host multiple MFE applications.
Motivation
Glaze UI
was designed for the ever changing world of front-end applications that currently face a challenge creating a modular approach and combining different frameworks into a same single page application.
All other MFE frameworks availabe are complex to use. Glaze UI
was designed with simplicity in mind, but also functionality and extensibility.
Examples
More examples coming soon
Github: https://github.com/yoda-libs/glaze-ui-examples
Quick Start
Shell application
To create the shell application, run the command below. For more information, refer to create-glaze-ui npm package.
yarn create glaze-ui <name> # or npx create-glaze-ui <name>
React micro front-end
To create a react micro-front end react app for glaze, run the command below. For more information, refer to create-glaze-ui-react npm package.
yarn create glaze-ui-react <app> # or npx create-glaze-ui-react <app>
Angular micro front-end
COMING SOON
Vue micro front-end
COMING SOON
Shell Application Example
Here is an example of the shell application index.jsx
file, registering navbar
as a MFE React application.
import {
bootstrap,
createApps, app,
createRoutes, route
} from 'glaze-ui';
const apps = createApps([
// run 'yarn create glaze-ui-react navbar' to create the navbar app
// run 'cd navbar && yarn start'
// in production replace the url below with the deployed production url
app('navbar', 'http://localhost:8081/navbar.js'),
// add additional apps here
]);
const router = createRoutes([
route('/', apps['navbar']),
// add additional routes here
])
bootstrap({
container: document.getElementById('root'),
apps,
router,
sharedLibs: {
'react': 'https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/umd/react.production.min.js',
'react-dom': 'https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/umd/react-dom.production.min.js',
}
}).then(glaze => {
// example on how to send a message to all glaze apps
glaze.dispatch({test: "message"});
}).catch(console.error);
Table of contents
- Glaze UI
Registering Apps
Use createApps
function to register MFE apps.
createApps
takes an array of app
and returns a Dictionary
with the app name as the key and the app reference as the value.
const apps = createApps([
app('navbar', 'http://acme.com/navbar.js')
])
createApps
- Input:
app[]
: array ofapp
.
app
Inputs:
name
: (string
) - the application name.bootstrap
: (string | Bootstrap
) - a string or an object withmount
andunmount
functions.Bootstrap
{ mount: (container, props) => HTMLElement, unmount: (container, app) => void }
Examples:
Register the
mount
andunmount
functions.app('navbar', () => { mount: (container, props) => { const div = <div>Example MFE app</div>; container.appendChild(div); return div; }, unmount: (container, app) => { container.removeChild(app) } })
Use
SystemJS
to load a external module that resolves to an object withmount
andunmount
functions similar to the example above.app('navbar', () => System.import('http://acme.com/navbar.js'))
Simplify by using a string that
Glaze UI
will use to callSystemJS
like the example above.app('navbar', 'http://acme.com/navbar.js')
Creating Layouts
Use createLayout
function to create a layout. Layouts are used in routes.
const rootLayout = createLayout(
<div className="row">
<div id="navbar" />
<div id="content" />
</div>,
{
navbar: apps['navbar'],
content: apps['content']
}
)
const notFoundLayout = createLayout(
<h1>404 Not Found</h1>
)
createLayout
- Inputs:
template
: (html
) - an html template.<div id="myid" />
apps
: (Dictionary
) - a dictionary that maps the html elementid
to a reference of theapp
.myid: apps['navbar']
Registering Routes
Use createRoutes
function to register routes for MFE apps.
const router = createRoutes([
route('/', rootLayout),
route('/login', apps['login']),
defaultRoute(notFoundLayout)
])
createRoutes
- Input:
Middleware<Context>[]
: array ofMiddlewares
.
route
,defaultRoute
or a custom function(context, next) => void
.
route
Defines an app
or a layout
to render when url starts with the specified path
.
- Inputs:
path
: (string
) - the route path.appOrLayout
: (app
|layout
) - a reference to an app or layout.props
: (json
) - additional props to pass to the app or layout.hooks
- rendering hooks available{ beforeMount?: (props: any) => Promise<void> | void; afterMount?: (props: any) => Promise<void> | void; beforeUnmount?: () => Promise<void> | void; afterUnmount?: () => Promise<void> | void; }
Examples:
Register route with an app reference.
route('/', apps['navbar'])
Register route with a layout.
route('/', createLayout( <div className="row"> <div id="navbar"></div> <div className="col"> <div id="left"></div> <div id="right"></div> </div> </div>, { navbar: apps['navbar'], left: apps['left'], right: apps['right'], }) )
defaultRoute
Defines the an app
or layout
that will load if no other routes are a match.
- Inputs:
appOrLayout
: (app
|layout
) - a reference to an app or layout.props
: (json
) - additional props to pass to the app or layout.hooks
- rendering hooks available{ beforeMount?: (props: any) => Promise<void> | void; afterMount?: (props: any) => Promise<void> | void; beforeUnmount?: () => Promise<void> | void; afterUnmount?: () => Promise<void> | void; }
Examples:
Register default route with a 404 layout.
defaultRoute(notFoundLayout)
Register default route inline.
defaultRoute(createLayout(<h1>404 Not Found</h1>))
redirectRoute
Defines the an app
or layout
that will load if no other routes are a match.
- Inputs:
from
: (string
) - redirect from path.to
: (string
) - redirect to path.Example:
redirectRoute('/', '/layout')
custom middleware
Defines a custom middleware.
- Inputs:
function
: (context
,next
) - a function that takescontext
and anext
function.context
path
: (string
) - the url path.state
: (object
) - an object with state.matches
: (object
) - an object withscore
andlayout
.score
: (number
) - a number that gives a score to the match.layout
: (layout
) - the layout that matches the url path.
next
: (function
) - a function that calls the next middleware.
Examples:
An authentication middleware.
const authMiddleware = async (context, next) => { if (context.path.startsWith('/login')) return next(); if (context.path.startsWith('/logout')) { localStorage.removeItem('token'); return await router.navigate('/login'); } if (context.path.startsWith('/auth')) { const { token } = context.state; localStorage.setItem('token', token); return await router.navigate('/'); } if (!localStorage.getItem('token')) return await router.navigate('/login'); next(); };
A simple middleware that mimics a
route
.const customRoute = (context, next) => { if (context.path.startsWith('/custom')) { context.matches.push({ score: 50, layout: createLayout(<h1>Custom Page</h1>) }); } next(); }
Bootstraping
Use bootstrap
function to initialize the library and bootstrap components. Returns a Promise
that resolves to an instance of Glaze
.
bootstrap({
container: document.getElementById('root'),
apps,
router,
})
bootstrap
- Inputs:
config
: (BootstrapConfig
) - the configuration object.BootstrapConfig
container
: (HTMLElement
) - the root html element for Glaze UI to render.document.getElementById('root')
apps
: (app[]
) - the list of apps. Plese refer to createApps.router
: (Router
) - a reference to a router. Please refer to createRoutes.sharedLibs
: (Dictionary
) - a dictionary with library urls to be shared across MFE apps.{ 'react': 'https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/umd/react.production.min.js', 'react-dom': 'https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/umd/react-dom.production.min.js', }
options
: - the options.{ debug: true }
Examples:
Most trivial example on how to bootstrap.
bootstrap({ container: document.getElementById('root'), apps })
Bootstrap with a router and dispatches a message after.
bootstrap({ container: document.getElementById('root'), apps, router, }).then(async glaze => { // example on how to send a message to all glaze apps glaze.dispatch({test: "message"}); })