Deploy

Deploy

This section covers two common methods for deploying a Shiny app-package: 1) Docker images and containers, 2) using GitHub Actions for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD), and 3) building and deploying a package website.

Docker

Docker covers how using Docker can simplify setting up your R environment and reduce the “it works on my machine” problem:

• 20.1 What is Docker?

• 20.2 Installing Docker

• 20.3 Writing a Dockerfile

• 20.4 Build the Docker image

• 20.4.1 Running the container

• 20.5 Docker & golem

• 20.6 Docker in app-packages

GitHub Actions

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) can be implemented for your Shiny app-package using GitHub actions. This chapter covers the following workflows:

• 21.1 Code styling and linting

• 21.2 Shiny app deployment

• 21.3 Shiny apps & Docker

Package websites

pkgdown helps us easily create websites for our app-packages. This chapter covers:

• 22.1 Setting up pkgdown

• 22.2 Building site

• 22.3 Customize site layout

• 22.3.3 Function reference

• 22.4 Deploying your site