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EF Education First · 2023 – present
EF Programs
Bringing eight product teams onto one monorepo and one release pipeline.
20+microfrontends consolidated into one Nx monorepo, retiring 15,000+ lines of duplicated code.
The project
The global catalogue of EF’s language and travel programmes, built and shipped by eight product teams.
- Role
- Frontend architecture · EF Education First
- Stack
- Next.js
- Nx
- TypeScript
- Microfrontends
- Claude Code
The problem
Twenty-plus microfrontends had drifted apart across eight teams: duplicated code, duplicated components and separate releases. Every team paid for the fragmentation.
What I did
- Architected the Nx monorepo the eight product teams now ship from, behind a single shared build and release pipeline.
- Established the shared component library the frontend estate standardises on, ending duplicate component work across teams.
- Wrote the CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and Skills definitions that give coding agents the monorepo’s architecture and conventions, so agent-written code follows the same patterns as everyone else’s.
What changed
More than 15,000 lines of duplicated code were retired, and twenty-plus microfrontends now release through one pipeline.
