Building Shiny apps
Overview
Shiny tutorial with hands-on activity to build app with BC Liquor Store dataset
BC Liquor Store Products and Prices: the sample app we’ll build this week
Awesome add-on packages to Shiny
Many people have written packages that enhance Shiny in some way or add extra functionality. Here is a list of several popular packages that people often use together with Shiny:
- shinythemes: Easily alter the appearance of your app
- shinyjs: Enhance user experience in Shiny apps using JavaScript functions without knowing JavaScript
- leaflet: Add interactive maps to your apps
- ggvis: Similar to ggplot2, but the plots are focused on being web-based and are more interactive
- shinydashboard: Gives you tools to create visual “dashboards”
Resources
Shiny is a very popular package and has lots of resources on the web. Here’s a compiled list of a few resources I recommend, which are all fairly easy to read and understand.
- Shiny official tutorial
- Shiny cheatsheet
- Lots of short useful articles about different topics in Shiny - highly recommended
- Shiny in Rmarkdown
- Get help from the Shiny Google group or StackOverflow
- Publish your apps for free with shinyapps.io
- Host your app on your own Shiny server
- Learn about how reactivity works
- Learn about useful debugging techniques