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!

Shinyapps public

Push-button Publishing for Shiny Apps

Peter Solymos

Deploying Shiny apps can be as easy as clicking a button. Deploy to the cloud using Shinyapps.io or to your own servers running RStudio Connect with a click of a button.

4 min read May 13, 2021

General public

How to Make the Most of This Website?

Peter Solymos

Search, tags, archive, weekly digest, PWA, dark mode, image gallery - it's all yours!

2 min read May 10, 2021

Docker public

Dockerizing Shiny Applications

Peter Solymos

Docker provides isolation to applications. Images are immutable. Running multiple instances of the same image can serve many users at the same time. All these general advantages of containerized applications apply to Shiny apps too.

6 min read May 7, 2021

General public

What is a Data App?

Peter Solymos

Data apps are modern web applications that simplify data-intensive operations and provide value to users by answering very specific questions.

2 min read May 4, 2021

Docker public

Docker Basics for Data Apps

Peter Solymos

Docker is the most popular virtualization environment to deliver software in containers. In this post we review the basics of working with Docker to lay the foundation for "dockerizing" data applications.

3 min read Apr 30, 2021

Shiny public

Run Shiny Apps Locally

Peter Solymos

The simplest way to run a Shiny app is to run it locally. You only need the shiny R package installed, and you can run the app in your browser.

5 min read Apr 23, 2021

Shiny public

The Best Resources for Learning Shiny App Development

Peter Solymos

The Hosting Data Apps website is dedicated to help you learn about your hosting options. As outlined in the opening post, data app development related content is kept to a minimum. In this post we list resources that provide accessible introduction to Shiny app development.

1 min read Apr 16, 2021

Shiny public

The Anatomy of a Shiny Application

Peter Solymos

Shiny lets you quickly build web applications using the R programming language. In this post I will walk you through how a Shiny application is structured. The goal is simply to have the most basic and dependency free app that we can deploy. Let's get going!

4 min read Apr 9, 2021