Frameworks

Published

2025-03-25

Shiny frameworks

This section covers three popular Shiny frameworks: golem, leprechaun, and rhino. These frameworks provide structure, modularity, and encourage better development practices, but each their own philosophy, strengths, and ideal use-case.

gap

gap is a golem app-package

The applications in Chapter 23 (golem) can be accessed with the launch() or get() functions from the shinypak R package:

# install.packages('pak')
pak::pak('mjfrigaard/shinypak')
library(shinypak)

Chapter 23 applications:

list_apps(regex = '^23')
## # A tibble: 1 × 2
##   branch   last_updated       
##   <chr>    <dttm>             
## 1 23_golem 2025-03-25 07:41:17

lap

lap is a leprechaun app-package

The applications in Chapter 24 (leprechaun) can be accessed with the launch() or get() functions from the shinypak R package:

# install.packages('pak')
pak::pak('mjfrigaard/shinypak')
library(shinypak)

Chapter 24 applications:

list_apps(regex = '^24')
## # A tibble: 1 × 2
##   branch        last_updated       
##   <chr>         <dttm>             
## 1 24_leprechaun 2024-09-03 14:24:11

rap

rap is a rhino app (pseudo-package)1

The applications in Chapter 25 (rhino) can be accessed with the launch() or get() functions from the shinypak R package:

# install.packages('pak')
pak::pak('mjfrigaard/shinypak')
library(shinypak)

Chapter 25 applications:

list_apps(regex = '^25')
## # A tibble: 1 × 2
##   branch   last_updated       
##   <chr>    <dttm>             
## 1 25_rhino 2024-08-24 05:20:05

For a complete description of how each application was created, see the Shiny frameworks supplemental website.

  1. rhino apps aren’t R packages–they’re dependencies are managed with a dependencies.R file and box modules.↩︎