Responsibilities

AppShell, a pivotal component of Akinon’s UI Protocol, plays several critical roles in ensuring the smooth operation and integration of micro and main frontend applications. A clear understanding of these responsibilities is crucial for effectively utilizing and integrating AppShell into the development process.

Managing Application State

• State Synchronization: AppShell maintains consistent state across the main and micro applications. It ensures that state changes in the main application are mirrored in the micro applications, and vice versa.
• State Isolation: While synchronizing states, AppShell also keeps each application’s state isolated to prevent any unintended effects on other applications, thus safeguarding the integrity of individual application states.

Handling User Actions

• Action Processing: AppShell processes actions from micro applications, such as user inputs and navigation events, and translates these into appropriate responses within the main application.
• Action Propagation: It ensures the results of these actions are accurately relayed back to the relevant micro applications, maintaining a cohesive user experience across the platform.

Navigation

• Routing: AppShell works with the main application’s routing system to display the correct pages when micro applications are engaged, managing route data and query parameters efficiently.
• 2-way Redirecting: It manages navigation such that users are directed to appropriate micro applications or pages within the main application based on their navigation choices.

Integrating Micro Applications

• Seamless Integration: AppShell facilitates the smooth embedding, loading, and unloading of micro applications within the main application framework, ensuring uninterrupted user experiences.
• Interface Consistency: It guarantees that micro applications conform to the main application’s interface guidelines, promoting a uniform look and feel throughout the ecosystem.

Performance and Scalability

• Optimization: AppShell enhances the performance and efficiency of the entire application ecosystem, optimizing interactions between main and micro applications.
• Scalability: It supports the frontend architecture’s scalability, allowing for easy integration of new micro applications without significant impact on existing components.

Security Integration

• Security Measures: AppShell integrates with the main application’s security framework to implement and manage security protocols within micro applications, focusing on authentication, authorization, and secure communication.
• Security Isolation: It ensures that the integration of micro applications does not compromise the security of the main application, maintaining robust isolation between their respective security infrastructures.
• Security Compliance: AppShell verifies that all micro applications adhere to the main application’s security standards and do not introduce vulnerabilities.

Understanding and managing these responsibilities effectively is key to leveraging AppShell’s capabilities, ensuring a secure, scalable, and seamless integration of applications within the Akinon ecosystem.