Micro-Frontends: Server-Side Integration with SSI and ESI

As web applications grow, monolithic frontends become difficult to scale. Modern web architecture solves this by breaking frontends into independent, modular pieces, but integrating them seamlessly on the server remains a key challenge.\n\nThis text-only course guides you through the foundational concepts of server-side frontend integration. You will understand how to compose dynamic pages using Server-Side Includes (SSI) and Edge Side Includes (ESI), enabling faster load times and decoupled development workflows.\n\nWhat you'll learn:\n- Understand the core principles of micro-frontends and server-side composition\n- Implement Server-Side Includes (SSI) to assemble modular web pages on the web server\n- Configure Edge Side Includes (ESI) to offload page assembly to edge servers and CDNs\n- Compare server-side integration with client-side composition techniques\n- Apply modern caching strategies to optimize performance and data freshness\n- Learn design patterns for handling fallback content and error boundaries in modular frontends\n\nYou will start with fundamental terminology and core web architecture concepts before diving into step-by-step written explanations of SSI, ESI, and alternative integration tools.\n\nThis course is designed for web developers, system architects, and technical beginners interested in modern web infrastructure. No prior experience with micro-frontends is required, though a basic understanding of HTML and web server concepts is helpful.\n\nStart reading today to master the architectural patterns behind high-performance, modular web applications.