# The Hidden Costs of Microfrontends — Interactive Edge Cases

Companion app for the article "The Hidden Costs of Microfrontends Nobody Talks About." Six interactive demos that make the architectural failure modes of microfrontends visible : design token drift, dependency mismatches, shared HTTP coupling, store synchronization issues, and the decision of whether to actually go distributed. No real Module Federation. No real backend. Each demo simulates two or more "microfrontends" inside a single React application so the failure modes stay legible and scree