Serve a Shiny app from a plumber2 api — api

You can serve one or more shiny apps as part of a plumber2 api. The shiny app launches in a background process and the api will work as a reverse proxy to forward requests to path to the process and relay the response to the client. The shiny app is started along with the api and shut down once the api is stopped. This functionality requires the shiny and callr packages to be installed. Be aware that all requests to subpaths of path will be forwarded to the shiny process, and thus not end up in your normal route

Usage

api_shiny(api, path, app)

Arguments

api: A plumber2 api to add the shiny app to
path: The path to serve the shiny app from
app: A shiny app object

Value

This functions return the api object allowing for easy chaining with the pipe

Using annotation

A shiny app can be served using an annotated route file by using the @shiny tag and proceeding the annotation block with the shiny app object

#* @shiny /my_app/
shiny::shinyAppDir("./shiny")

Examples

blank_shiny <- shiny::shinyApp(
  ui = shiny::fluidPage(),
  server = shiny::shinyServer(function(...) {})
)

api() |>
  api_shiny("my_app/", blank_shiny)
#> ── A plumber server ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> Serving on http://127.0.0.1:8080
#> Currently not running