[rstudio::conf(2020)] Production-grade Shiny Apps with golem

Talk at rstudio::conf(2020)

Transcript

1. Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps with {golem} Colin Fay / Vincent Guyader - ThinkR Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 1 / 26
2. Colin FAY Data Scientist & R-Hacker at ThinkR. Vincent Guyader ThinkR Founder & CTO, Data Scientist, R expert. Find us on the web http://thinkr.fr http://rtask.thinkr.fr http://github.com/thinkr-open http://twitter.com/thinkr_fr $ whoami Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 2 / 26
3. ThinkR Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 3 / 26
4. Data Science engineering, focused on R.  Training  Software Engineering  R in production  Consulting ThinkR Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 4 / 26
5. What's a "prod-ready" software?  Has meta-data  Is divided in functions  Is tested  Lists requirements  Is documented Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 5 / 26
6. What {shiny} devs claim: Reality: Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 6 / 26
7. Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 7 / 26
8. Here comes {golem} {golem} is an R package that contains a framework for building production-ready Shiny Applications. Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 8 / 26
9. Q & A What do you like the most? Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 9 / 26
10. Q & A What do you like the most? A: Work on building data manipulation, visualisation, and models Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 9 / 26
11. Q & A What do you like the most? A: Work on building data manipulation, visualisation, and models B: Spend 15 minutes on checking that you've correctly copied and pasted a Shiny Module skeleton Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 9 / 26
12. Why {golem}? Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 10 / 26
13. Why {golem}?  If you have to copy and paste a piece of code more than twice, write a function Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 11 / 26
14. Why {golem}?  If you have to copy and paste a piece of code more than twice, write a function  If you have to copy and paste an infrastructure more than twice, write a framework Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 11 / 26
15. Why {golem}? Why using {golem}?  Automation is gold  Sharing is caring  Collective intelligence Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 12 / 26
16.  Has meta-data  Is divided in functions  Is tested  Lists requirements  Is documented DESCRIPTION R/ tests/ NAMESPACE man/ & vignettes {golem} central philosophy Shiny App As a Package What's a "prod-ready" Shiny App? Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 13 / 26
17. And the cool thing... Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 14 / 26
18. golex ├── DESCRIPTION ├── NAMESPACE ├── R │ ├── app_config.R │ ├── app_server.R │ ├── app_ui.R │ └── run_app.R ├── dev │ ├── 01_start.R │ ├── 02_dev.R │ ├── 03_deploy.R │ └── run_dev.R ├── inst │ ├── app │ │ └── www │ │ └── favicon.ico │ └── golem-config.yml Standard things DESCRIPTION, NAMESPACE, man/ R/ app_server & app_ui: Shiny UI and Server run_app: launches your app dev/ 0._.*.R: scripted worflows run_dev.R: relaunches your app while developing Understanding {golem} Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 15 / 26
19. Wait... Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 16 / 26
20. Build golem::add_module() golem::add_css_file() golem::add_js_handler() golem::use_favicon() Deploy golem::add_rstudioconnect_file() golem::add_shinyappsio_file() golem::add_shinyserver_file() golem::add_dockerfile() Automation with {golem} Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 17 / 26
21. Template files (and where to put them) golem::add_module( name = "my_module.R" ) ✓ File created at R/mod_my_module.R Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 18 / 26
22. Template files (and where to put them) ... #' @importFrom shiny NS tagList mod_my_module_ui <- function(id){ ns <- NS(id) tagList( ) } #' @noRd mod_my_module_server <- function(input, output, session){ ns <- session$ns } ## To be copied in the UI # mod_my_module_ui("my_module_ui_1") ## To be copied in the server # callModule(mod_my_module_server, "my_module_ui_1") Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 19 / 26
23. What's next All WIP and ideas are currently listed at https://github.com/ThinkR-open/golem/issues Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 20 / 26
24. What's next golem 0.2.0 — CRAN release candidate Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 21 / 26
25. What's next? Spread the word (and share stickers): tweets, blog posts, talk to your friends and family about {golem} Open issues when you encounter a bug Give feedback about things you might find weird Open issue if you have idea / feature requests Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 22 / 26
26. What's next? Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 23 / 26
27. golemverse.org Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 24 / 26
28. connect.thinkr.fr/engineering-shiny/ Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 25 / 26
29. Thx! Questions? Colin Fay & Vincent Guyader Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 26 / 26