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Giovanni Lenoci • • Edited

If you have many microfrontend in prod I assume each one will be accessible on a different hostname.

You can do the same on a local machine mapping local host in your /etc/hosts (or similar under windows), host 127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.254 will map to localhost:

127.0.0.2 microfrontend1.app
127.0.0.3 microfrontend2.app
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In your docker-compose file you can expose every microfrontend in this way:

node1:
  ports:
    - "127.0.0.2:80:8080" #

node2:
  ports:
    - "127.0.0.3:80:8080" #
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node1 will respond to microfrontend1.app in your local browser and node2 to microfrontend2.app

In this configuration you take rid of limits about port already used because there are 2 different hosts.

Hope this helps

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Venkatesh KL •

That makes sense. Thanks a ton 👏

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Venkatesh KL •

Only difference is that we're having a proxy service at the top level which hides all the micro apps from external world. So that's something that is have to consider while trying it out.
I'll give it a shot thanks for the motivation 👏