Guidance on Using Capacitor Federation Plugin

Capacitor
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Hi Team,

Our enterprise application is built using the Angular, Ionic, and Capacitor tech stack. We offer both web and mobile apps to our end users. We have a requirement to transition our application to a micro frontend architecture. Using Angular Module Federation, we can convert our Angular application into micro frontends:

According to the Capacitor documentation, the Capacitor Federation plugin enables mobile apps to adopt a micro frontend approach:

With the Ionic team discontinuing its enterprise offerings and no longer onboarding new customers Important Announcement: The Future of Ionic’s Commercial Products - Ionic Blog, could you please provide guidance on how we can use the Capacitor Federation plugin?

My understanding is that Capacitor Federation can only be used with Ionic Appflow for over-the-air updates. With Ionic Appflow being deprecated, how should we proceed further for OTA?

Thank you.

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Capawesome offers OTA - https://cloud.capawesome.io/ along with Capgo - https://capgo.app.

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My understanding is that the Capgo plugin works for monolithic apps. Does the Capgo plugin support micro frontends?

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Hello,

Please update whether you were able to find a solution for the above mentioned problem? We are also looking to implement a micro frontend architecture for our enterprise application using Ionic/Angular and with portals being retired we are waiting at the crossroads confused.

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Hi, this is Robin from Capawesome. We will soon be adding support for Federated Capacitor to our Capawesome Live Update plugin. We are currently seeking Ionic Enterprise customers who would be willing to test this new implementation with us. If you’re interested, please send an email to robin[at]capawesome[.]io.