jargon

Frontend & browser·Modules, bundling and the build

one deployed application loads a component from another at runtime, over the network, from its own build.

Module federation

A bundler feature letting separately built and deployed applications share modules at runtime, including shared singletons of a framework. It lets teams deploy independently without publishing packages, which is its entire point. The cost is a distributed versioning problem in the browser: a shared dependency mismatch between two independently deployed hosts fails at runtime, in production, with no build to catch it.

Commonly confused with