Add a Native Federation generator

[zerock54]

HI,

As Webpack is getting more and more deprecated in favour of esbuild, are you planning to add a generator for the tooling-agnostic Native Federation from @manfredsteyer ?

This way we could generate microfrontends with any bundler without being tied to Webpack

I know one already exists (@angular-architects/native-federation) but I find that it does not really compare to the one Nx is providing for Module Federation. It does the job but it's missing some ease of use.

Thanks !

[edbzn]

I also want to know what direction Nx will take regarding module federation and eventually native module federation.

[zerock54]

Any update ?

Thanks

[nikita-emelianov]

I'm playing with Native Federation (@angular-architects/native-federation) and love the way it works. Since we use NX a lot in our Angular projects, it would be great to have built-in tools from NX.
so +1 (and a lot more from my team) for the feature request

[Muzummil]

+1

[anselmhou]

Any plan or news on this regards?

+1 anyway

[Beilinson]

I would prefer a focus on transitioning to Module Federation 2.0, which is also bundler independent

[FortinFred]

Just learned about Module Federation 2.0 thanks to your comment.

How is it bundler independent when you need the bundler to provide a plugin?

Seems to support only webpack and rspack for now.

What about rollup and esbuild?

I don't get why energy is spent on Module Federation when we have importmaps(aka Native Federation) which is now in all modern browsers.

What am I missing?

[FortinFred]

Was one click away...
@module-federation/native-federation-typescript

Still I don't get why we need such a complex echo system. Would love to understand.

[Beilinson]

Based on my understanding dynamic module federation as Nx implements on top of module federation is basically impossible with native federation because import maps are hard coded into your index.html and can't be updated without a deploy of your shell application, however I may be wrong so I'd love to hear others input on the topic

[FortinFred]

The generation of the importmap in the HTML would be more the responsibility of the @angular-architects/native-federation builder.

NX's responsability AFAIK would be to provide tooling around generators targetting the use of @angular-architects/native-federation.

[winnemucca]

Is it documented anywhere whether the plan is to continue with module federation or eventually adapt native federation? I adapted native federation at my last company, but have wanted to get the benefits of NX.

[oluizcarvalho]

Up +1

[banjankri]

any updates on the matter? We have integrated native federation ourselves into our Nx angular monorepo, but would be great to have the option to offload that to Nx directly.

With the new angular build system we had to do it, as we could no longer use module federation that is webpack bound.