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

Talk at rstudio::conf(2020)

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1. Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps
   with {golem}
   Colin Fay / Vincent Guyader - ThinkR
   Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 1 / 26
   

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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
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3. ThinkR
   Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 3 / 26
   

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4. Data Science engineering, focused on R.
    Training
    Software Engineering
    R in production
    Consulting
   ThinkR
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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
   

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6. What {shiny} devs claim: Reality:
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7. Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 7 / 26
   

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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
   

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9. Q & A
   What do you like the most?
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10. Q & A
    What do you like the most?
    A: Work on building data manipulation, visualisation, and models
    
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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
    

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12. Why {golem}?
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13. Why {golem}?
     If you have to copy and paste a piece of code more than twice, write a
    function
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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
    

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15. Why {golem}?
    Why using {golem}?
     Automation is gold
     Sharing is caring
     Collective intelligence
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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
    

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17. And the cool thing...
    Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 14 / 26
    

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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}
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19. Wait...
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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}
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21. Template files (and where to put them)
    golem::add_module( name = "my_module.R" )
    ✓ File created at R/mod_my_module.R
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22. Template files (and where to put them)
    ...
    #' @importFrom shiny NS tagList
    mod_my_module_ui ns tagList(
    )
    }
    #' @noRd
    mod_my_module_server 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")
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23. What's next
    All WIP and ideas are currently listed at https://github.com/ThinkR-open/golem/issues
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24. What's next
    golem 0.2.0 — CRAN release candidate
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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
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26. What's next?
    Colin FAY (@_ColinFay) - https://rtask.thinkr.fr 23 / 26
    

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27. golemverse.org
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28. connect.thinkr.fr/engineering-shiny/
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29. Thx! Questions?
    Colin Fay & Vincent Guyader
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