Scalable Architecture

Summary

Designing a frontend codebase so it stays maintainable as the app, team and feature count grow — clear boundaries, low coupling, predictable patterns.

How to Learn This

1Identify the parts of a project that would be painful to change today — that's your coupling.
2Read about layering: keeping UI, business logic and data-access separate.
3Study how a real open-source app of meaningful size is organized.

Folder Structure

Atomic Design

More topics in Frontend System Design

Folder Structure Atomic Design Feature-based Architecture Component Library Reusable Components State Separation API Layer Caching Error Boundaries Micro Frontends Accessibility Performance Architecture

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