You have thirty minutes before the demo, and your Shiny app still looks like Bootstrap 5 out of the box. We have all been there. The analysis is solid, the model is good, the tables are clean. And then someone from the communication team walks past your screen and says, very politely, that “it doesn’t really look like us”. They ...

After years of powering Shiny applications in production, {golem} — our opinionated framework for building production-grade Shiny apps as R packages — has finally reached a symbolic milestone: version 1.0.0. This is more than a version bump. It marks a mature, stable API, and it’s the right moment to clean up a few legacy behaviors along the way. Here’s what’s ...

From prototype to production, make sure nothing breaks… You’ve created a fantastic mockup and your client is delighted. You’re ready to move to production with your application. But one question haunts you: how can you ensure that your application will remain stable and functional through modifications and evolutions? The answer comes down to one word: testing. Three weeks ago, part ...

Let’s continue our exploration of integrating JavaScript code into a {shiny} application! We will show how to move beyond the classic graphs produced in base R or with {ggplot2} to explore the interactive dataviz production libraries of JavaScript, particularly the Chart.js library. If you missed our first article on integrating JavaScript libraries into a {shiny} application I invite you to ...

Header image generated by ChatGPT We are thrilled to announce the release of {golem} version 0.5.0! This update comes packed with new features, enhancements, and bug fixes that will streamline your Shiny app development process. You can download the latest version from your favorite CRAN repository, or by running the following command in R: pak::pak( “thinkr-open/[email protected]” ) What’s New in This Version? ...

The new version of {golem} is available! Read the complete version of this article at https://golemverse.org/post/golem-0.4.0-release-on-cran/ What’s up with this new version? Lighter dependency tree When we release the first version of {golem} on CRAN, we made the decision that all {golem}-based app should depend on {golem}. This was a conscious decision ,and we made it because {golem} comes with a bunch of internal functions that are used ...

The new version of {golem} is now available! You can download it from your favorite CRAN repository, or by running the following command: remotes::install_github( “thinkr-open/[email protected]” ) What’s up with this new version? In this release, we have been focusing on a closer integration of tests inside the application building process, notably via Server function testing with Shiny, adding tests to ...

It is with great pleasure that we can announce that the paper version of the book “Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps” is available. It is published in the R Series by Chapman & Hall. If you want to use shiny with rigour , and use this techno to push your applications into production, this book is for you. The ThinkR team ...

The new version of {golem} (0.3.1) has been available on CRAN 🎉 for about a month now. This new version includes a lot of new things, but we notably focused on working on two important new features: allowing you to extend {golem} via templates, and supporting for the latest changes in {shiny}. Extending {golem} One of the challenges when it ...

One of the things that we keep promoting in the ThinkR team are good practices for production software engineering in R. Of course, that implies Shiny Applications—and even more if we introduce the {golem} package, which promotes good practices for “production-grade” Shiny application. But let’s take a step back and think about what makes a successful/production-grade Shiny Application. ...

A little blog post about where to look if you want to get started with {golem}, and an invitation to code with us in October. ...