Wes and Scott talk with Zack Jackson about Module Federation, and the innovative ways it streamlines collaboration across large teams and complex applications. Zack also dives into simplifying microfrontends, optimizing builds with Rspack, and his work at ByteDance.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 00:48 Zach background and role at ByteDance
• 03:10 ByteDance’s web and native apps
  • How ByteDance Became the World’s Most Valuable Startup

Lynx

ByteDance GitHub

Coze

Lark

MarsCode

06:48 What is Module Federation?

• Zephyr Cloud

15:49 Evolution from V1 to V2 of Module Federation

24:47 When to consider Module Federation

29:46 How would you publish a utils package in Module Federation?

32:59 How would you do a major upgrade?

36:36 Brought to you by Sentry.io

37:01 Who owns the update process?

39:40 Handling multiple frameworks

42:10 ModernJS and Meta frameworks

• ModernJS

Rspress

47:20 Does ByteDance have its own JavaScript runtime?

• NAPI

50:02 Why Zack built Rspack

• Rspack

Rsbuild

58:15 The future of Rspack and custom bundlers

• Unpack

01:04:24 Module Federation’s major features

01:07:29 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs

Shameless Plugs

• Zack:
  • Zephyr Cloud

Midscene.js

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