Scaling Shiny

Beyond dashboards

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State preservation and management

Users should be able to walk away from an app and resume their work later

• Fix to make shiny::selectInput honor the bookmarked order of selection.

• Script to take advantage of properly bookmarked applications to achieve hot reloading even inside packages.

• Manipulation of server-side bookmarks (planned).

• Testing bookmarks (planned).

Evergreen Shiny Gotchas

Solutions to longstanding issues

• Dealing with nested observers.

• Herding Shiny IDs (planned)

Scalable architecture

Essays

• Hyrum’s usucaption (planned)

• On not packaging (planned)

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