Who is 1fe For?
1fe is designed for UI Platform teams at organizations who need to provide ecosystem-wide standards and tooling. The platform team makes foundational decisions that benefit the entire organization.
🏢 Target Organizations
1fe is not built to be adopted by individuals, but rather by UI Platform teams at medium to large organizations. The goal is to provide an ecosystem that allows the platform team to build and maintain tooling, guidance, and standards that can be utilized by the rest of the organization without effort or overhead.
Ideal Organizational Structure
- Platform Team - Owns 1fe infrastructure, standards, and shared tooling
- Product Teams - Build widgets and experiences using platform-provided tools
- Cross-Team Collaboration - Need for shared components and consistent experiences
Signs Your Organization Needs 1fe
- Frontend fragmentation across multiple teams and products
- Redundant infrastructure being built by different teams
- Slow development cycles due to coordination overhead
- High maintenance costs from multiple build systems and deployment pipelines
⚙️ Platform Team Responsibilities
The 1fe platform team makes foundational decisions that benefit the entire organization across several key areas:
Code Authoring Standards
- Node.js version for build and tooling consistency
- TypeScript configuration and version management
- React version and upgrade strategies
- ESLint rules for strict/non-strict modes across teams
Testing Infrastructure
- Unit testing framework selection and configuration
- E2E testing patterns and shared utilities
Build System Management
- Bundler selection and optimization (Webpack, Vite, etc.)
- Asset handling for images, fonts, and static resources
- Library externalization for shared dependencies
Deployment Abstraction
Completely abstracted from product teams
- CI/CD pipeline templates and best practices
- CDN provider selection and configuration
- Asset bundling and deployment strategies
- Caching strategies for optimal performance
- Performance optimization built into the platform
Runtime Configuration
- Authentication strategies enabled via live configuration
- Feature flags and experimentation frameworks
- Route management per product and environment
- Progressive rollout capabilities
Platform Utilities
- Helper functions available out of the box to all widgets
- UI logging integration and error tracking
🎯 Product Team Benefits
While the platform team manages the infrastructure, product teams get significant benefits:
Reduced Cognitive Load
- No infrastructure decisions - Focus purely on product features
- Standardized tooling - Same patterns across all projects
- Automatic updates - Platform improvements benefit all teams
- Consistent developer experience - Easy to switch between projects
Faster Development
- Pre-configured environments - Start building immediately
- Shared components - Reuse UI elements across products
- Platform utilities - Common functionality built-in
- Independent deployments - Deploy when ready, not when coordinated
Quality by Default
- Enforced standards - Linting, testing, and formatting built-in
- Performance optimization - Best practices applied automatically
- Security policies - CSP and other protections managed centrally
- Accessibility compliance - Standards enforced across all widgets
💭 Common Concerns and Solutions
”One size fits all won’t work for our unique needs”
Reality: 1fe is designed to be extensible. Special requirements can be accommodated through platform extensions and customizations.
”This adds another layer of complexity”
Reality: 1fe reduces complexity for product teams by centralizing it in the platform team. The total organizational complexity decreases significantly.
”We’ll be dependent on the platform team”
Reality: Good platform teams enable independence, not dependence. The goal is to make product teams more autonomous, not less.