Building a Dedicated Platform for Frontend Developers at NAV

Explore the development of a dedicated platform for frontend developers at the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) in this 57-minute conference talk. Discover how NAV addresses the unique challenges of single-page applications within container-based platforms like NAIS. Learn about their journey in creating specialized tools and services for over 400 frontend applications, primarily built with React and Next.js. Gain insights into NAV's efforts to extend the benefits of their robust backend infrastructure—including Prometheus monitoring, automatic SQL database creation, and cluster network security policies—to frontend development. Understand the motivations behind NAV's pioneering initiative as a government agency in Norway to build a platform specifically for frontend applications, and explore the progress they've made in enhancing the development experience for their frontend teams.