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What Is New in ShinyProxy 3.1.0
ShinyProxy 3.1.0 was released on May 7, 2024. The new version comes with lots of new features and improvements.
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Hosting Data Apps
You mastered Shiny and Dash, your app is production ready — now learn about hosting options and pick one that best suits your needs!
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Heroku
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Scaling Shiny Apps for Python and R: Sticky Sessions on Heroku
Scaling Shiny apps requires load balancing with session affinity which is not a trivial matter. Read on to see how to do that on Heroku.
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R
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Manage Dependencies with the deps R Package for Docker Containers
The deps package gives you a lightweight option to manage package dependencies and you can install these inside containers.
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Python
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Containerizing Shiny for Python and Shinylive Applications
Shiny for Python brings easy interactivity to web applications that build on the data and scientific stack of Python. Containerizing Py-Shiny apps is the next step towards deployment to a wide array of hosting options, including static hosting.
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Quarto
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How to Set Up Quarto with Docker, Part 2: Dynamic Content
Quarto is next generation R Markdown that brings interactivity to documents using widgets, Observable, and Shiny. Let's see how to add server side execution to your Docker containers.
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Quarto
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How to Set Up Quarto with Docker, Part 1: Static Content
Learn how to work with Quarto inside a Docker container so that you can render and serve HTML documents and projects with ease.
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Docker
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We Need to Talk About Docker Registries
A Docker registry stores Docker images, this is where we push images to and pull images from. Why do we need a registry? What registries are out there? How can we work with them? Read on to find out.
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Rmarkdown
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Containerizing Interactive R Markdown Documents
R Markdown is a reproducible authoring format supporting dozens of static and dynamic output formats. Let's review why and how you should containerize Rmd files.
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News
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UseR!2022: Best Practices for Shiny Apps with Docker and More
The useR!2022 global and all-virtual conference took place between June 20 and 23. In this post, I recount presentations related to Shiny and container technology.
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General
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How Many Shiny Apps Can You Host for Free?
It is easy to get started with Shiny – luckily, your apps can be hosted for free to be shared with the world.
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Fly
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Hosting Shiny Apps on Fly.io: a Review
Auto-scale and host your Shiny app at scale and close to your users with Fly.io for free or at a low cost.
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CICD
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CICD Patterns with GitHub Actions and Docker
Start with easy integrations and add more serious testing to your CICD pipeline as your application matures.
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