A Framework for Robust Shiny Applications

An opinionated framework for building a production-ready 'Shiny' application. This package contains a series of tools for building a robust 'Shiny' application from start to finish.

{golem}

You’re reading the doc about version: 1.0.1. Note that {golem} follows the semantic versioning scheme.

Production-grade {shiny} applications, from creation to deployment.

{golem} is an opinionated framework that sets the standard for building production-grade {shiny} applications. It provides a structured environment that enforces best practices, fosters maintainability, and ensures your applications are reliable, and ready for deployment in real-world environments.

With {golem}, developers can focus on creating high-quality, robust {shiny} apps with confidence, knowing that the framework guides them through every step of the development process.

Installation

• You can install the stable version from CRAN with:

install.packages("golem")

• You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("ThinkR-open/golem") # Stable development version
# remotes::install_github("ThinkR-open/golem@dev") # Bleeding edge development version

Get Started

Create a new app with the project template from RStudio:

Or use the golem::create_golem() function:

golem::create_golem("myapp")

See your app in action by running golem::run_dev() function.

Then, follow the scripts at:

• dev/01_start.R to configure your project at launch
• dev/02_dev.R for day to day development
• dev/03_deploy.R to build the deployment enabler for your app

Resources

The {golem} package is part of the {golemverse}, a series of tools for building production {shiny} apps.

A list of various {golem} related resources (tutorials, video, blog post,…) can be found here, along with blogposts, and links to other packages of the golemverse.

Dev part

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CoC

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

Note for the contributors

Please format the files with air before submitting a contribution:

air format .

The repository also ships a pre-commit hook that runs air automatically (see .pre-commit-config.yaml).