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Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps
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"[This book] contains an excellent blend of both Shiny-specific topics … and practical advice from software development that fits in nicely with Shiny apps. You will find many nuggets of wisdom sprinkled throughout these chapters…."
Eric Nantz, Host of the R-Podcast and the Shiny Developer Series (from the Foreword)
"[This] book is a gradual and pleasant invitation to the production-ready shiny apps world. It …exposes a comprehensive and robust workflow powered by the {golem} package. [It] fills the not yet covered gap between shiny app development and deployment in such a thrilling way that it may be read in one sitting…. In the industry world, where processes robustness is a key toward productivity, this book will indubitably have a tremendous impact."
David Granjon, Sr. Expert Data Science, Novartis
Presented in full color, Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps helps people build production-grade shiny applications, by providing advice, tools, and a methodology to work on web applications with R. This book starts with an overview of the challenges which arise from any big web application organizing work, thinking about the user interface, the challenges of teamwork and the production environment. Then, it moves to a step-by-step methodology that goes from the idea to the end application. Each part of this process will cover in detail a series of tools and methods to use while building production-ready shiny applications. Finally, the book will end with a series of approaches and advice about optimizations for production.
Features
Focused on practical This book does not cover Shiny concepts, but practical tools and methodologies to use for production.
Based on This book is a formalization of several years of experience building Shiny applications.
Original This book presents new methodologies and tooling, not just a review of what already exists. Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps covers medium to advanced content about Shiny, so it will help people that are already familiar with building apps with Shiny, and who want to go one step further.
"[This book] contains an excellent blend of both Shiny-specific topics … and practical advice from software development that fits in nicely with Shiny apps. You will find many nuggets of wisdom sprinkled throughout these chapters…."
Eric Nantz, Host of the R-Podcast and the Shiny Developer Series (from the Foreword)
"[This] book is a gradual and pleasant invitation to the production-ready shiny apps world. It …exposes a comprehensive and robust workflow powered by the {golem} package. [It] fills the not yet covered gap between shiny app development and deployment in such a thrilling way that it may be read in one sitting…. In the industry world, where processes robustness is a key toward productivity, this book will indubitably have a tremendous impact."
David Granjon, Sr. Expert Data Science, Novartis
Presented in full color, Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps helps people build production-grade shiny applications, by providing advice, tools, and a methodology to work on web applications with R. This book starts with an overview of the challenges which arise from any big web application organizing work, thinking about the user interface, the challenges of teamwork and the production environment. Then, it moves to a step-by-step methodology that goes from the idea to the end application. Each part of this process will cover in detail a series of tools and methods to use while building production-ready shiny applications. Finally, the book will end with a series of approaches and advice about optimizations for production.
Features
Focused on practical This book does not cover Shiny concepts, but practical tools and methodologies to use for production.
Based on This book is a formalization of several years of experience building Shiny applications.
Original This book presents new methodologies and tooling, not just a review of what already exists. Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps covers medium to advanced content about Shiny, so it will help people that are already familiar with building apps with Shiny, and who want to go one step further.
364 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 28, 2021
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May 8, 2021
I really want to give this book 5 stars, but ...
From the beginning, the author gave an interesting methodology and philosophy on how to write a good app in general. Many common pitfalls a manager or an engineer needs to consider to avoid building a low-quality app.
Colin also worked hard to introduce many new packages to me. Very interesting.
However, the book lacks a full example of how to build a Shiny with golem. The last example is disappointment. I was excited to read to the end of the book to see how the author applies all his philosophy and golem in a small example app. But, it turned out a normal Shiny app.
Anyway, it's a very good book to level up your Shiny skills. Thank you Colin for your works. If you have a full example. I will buy a copy to act my own Bible in building a Shiny app. I will read your book again. Really an interesting book except for your example.
From the beginning, the author gave an interesting methodology and philosophy on how to write a good app in general. Many common pitfalls a manager or an engineer needs to consider to avoid building a low-quality app.
Colin also worked hard to introduce many new packages to me. Very interesting.
However, the book lacks a full example of how to build a Shiny with golem. The last example is disappointment. I was excited to read to the end of the book to see how the author applies all his philosophy and golem in a small example app. But, it turned out a normal Shiny app.
Anyway, it's a very good book to level up your Shiny skills. Thank you Colin for your works. If you have a full example. I will buy a copy to act my own Bible in building a Shiny app. I will read your book again. Really an interesting book except for your example.
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