idealo, Europe's largest price comparison site, faced challenges with a complex Java codebase and slow deployments due to contributions from multiple teams. In late 2023, a PoC team modernized the frontend with React and implemented Micro Frontends to give teams ownership of their components. We chose Astro for its speed, cost-effectiveness, and decentralized development capabilities, and have now created a functional micro-frontend template that many teams are using across the company.
This talk is about the technical solution of how we chose a framework that would meet all of our needs. Our requirements: Faster or similar response times; Acceptable costs; Allows decentralized development.