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Jul 17, 2019 · Frontend Development

Ant Financial Frontend Framework and Engineering Practices: Evolution, Architecture, and Future Directions

The article summarizes Chen Cheng's 2019 InfoQ talk on Ant Financial's frontend framework evolution—from early Sea.JS and Arale to Umi and Bigfish—detailing the merged architecture, plugin system, asset market, micro‑frontend strategy, routing, performance optimizations, testing, monitoring, and future plans.