The BFF Pattern (Backend for Frontend): An Introduction

Imagine a scenario where you need to build an e-Commerce application using microservices. You may have microservices for Customers, Orders, Products, Shopping carts, etc. The microservices expose APIs to be used by the frontend.

However, the data returned to the frontend by the Microservices may not be formatted or filtered according to the exact way the frontend needs to represent them.

In that case, the frontend needs to have some logic on its own to re-format these data. Having such logic in the frontend will use up more browser resources.

In a situation like this, we can use a BFF in order to shift some of this front-end logic to an intermediate layer. The intermediate layer is the BFF. When a frontend requests some data, it will call an API in the BFF.

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https://blog.bitsrc.io/bff-pattern-backend-for-frontend-an-introduction-e4fa965128bf

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