Basic Routing for Shiny Web Applications

It is a simple router for your Shiny apps. The router allows you to create dynamic web applications with real-time User Interface and easily share url to pages within your Shiny apps.

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:

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

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")

How to use it?

Basic usage:

library(shiny)
library(shiny.router)

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

ui <- fluidPage(
  title = "Router demo",
  router_ui(
    route("/", root_page),
    route("other", other_page)
  )
)

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

shinyApp(ui, server)

Check the tutorial for more details on how to start using shiny.router.

Examples

An application that showcases the shiny.router features can be found here:

It was built using two other Appsilon Open Source packages:

• rhino - an R package designed to help building high quality, enterprise-grade Shiny applications at speed.
• shiny.fluent - Microsoft's Fluent UI for Shiny apps.

You can also visit examples directory for some complete samples.

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.

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