shiny.router

A minimalistic router for your Shiny apps.

Now it’s possible to recreate a state of your app, by providing a specific URL, like:

  make_router(
    route("<your_app_url>/main",  mainPageShinyUI),
    route("<your_app_url>/other", otherPageShinyUI)
  )

Basic tutorial article is available on Appsilon’s blog.

Live demo

Source code

This library source code can be found on Appsilon’s Github: https://github.com/Appsilon/shiny.router

How to install?

It’s possible to install this library through CRAN

  install.packages("shiny.router")

The most recent version you can get from this repo using remotes.

  remotes::install_github("Appsilon/shiny.router")

To install previous version you can run:

  remotes::install_github("Appsilon/shiny.router", ref = "0.1.0")

Example

Visit examples directory for some complete samples. Here’s the basic usage:

library(shiny)
library(shiny.router)

root_page <- div(h2("Root page"))
other_page <- div(h3("Other page"))

router <- make_router(
  route("/", root_page),
  route("other", other_page)
)

ui <- fluidPage(
  title = "Router demo",
  router$ui
)

server <- function(input, output, session) {
  router$server(input, output, session)
}

shinyApp(ui, server)

How to contribute?

If you want to contribute to this project please submit a regular PR, once you’re done with new feature or bug fix.

Reporting a bug is also helpful - please use github issues and describe your problem as detailed as possible.

Changes in documentation

Documentation is rendered with pkgdown. Just run pkgdown::build_site() after editing documentation or README.md.

Troubleshooting

We used the latest versions of dependencies for this library, so please update your R environment before installation.

However, if you encounter any problems, try the following:

1. Up-to-date R language environment
2. Installing specific dependent libraries versions

   • magrittr r install.packages("magrittr", version='1.5')

   • shiny r install.packages("shiny", version='0.14.2.9001')

3. Missing shiny.semantic dependency - one of our examples uses one of our others libraries, so please install it as well, when running that example. Repository: shiny.semantic.

Future enhacements

• customize loading full session or just visible part

Appsilon

Appsilon is the Full Service Certified RStudio Partner. Learn more at appsilon.com. Get in touch support+opensource@appsilon.com.