R Shiny Masterclass: Building, Styling, and Scaling Shiny Applications || Posit || Appsilon

This is an R Shiny Masterclass for all levels hosted by Appsilon (@appsilon) and Posit (RStudio) PBC (@rstudio). Appsilon is a global leader in Shiny and has developed many large-scale Shiny projects for Fortune 500 companies. The Masterclass was first held at rstudio::global in January 2021. The workshop covers the following topics:

0:00 Introduction
2:00 Who is Appsilon?
5:48 Theming Shiny & R Markdown (bslib and thematic)
29:00 Styling Shiny with CSS and SASS
53:00 Speeding Up Shiny Apps
1:11:00 Guide to Shiny Open Source
1:21:00 Best Practices for Developing Shiny Apps
1:43:00 Scaling Shiny to Thousands of Users
2:02:00 Shiny Innovation: shiny.fluent, shiny.react, and beyond
2:36:00 Appsilon is Hiring!
2:41:00 Q&A

Presenters:
Tom Mock (@thomas_mock) – Customer Success @ Posit & Creator of #TidyTuesday
Shannon Hagerty (@sbhagerty) – Customer Success Representative @ Posit
Pedro Silva (@sparktuga) – Software Engineer @ Appsilon & Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Posit Shiny Contest
Dominik Krzemiński (@dokatox) – Open Source Tech Lead @ Appsilon & People’s Choice Winner of the 2020 shiny.semantic Contest
Olga Mierzwa-Sulima (@olga_mie) – Senior Data Scientist @ Appsilon
Damian Rodziewicz (@D_Rodziewicz) – Co-Founder @ Appsilon
Filip Stachura (@filipstachura) – CEO and Co-Founder @ Appsilon
Marek Rogala (@marekrog) – CTO and Co-Founder @ Appsilon

2:00:40 Scaling Shiny Links
Leverage frontend (Javascript, less CPU usage)
• https://appsilon.com/how-to-scale-a-s...
• https://book.javascript-for-r.com/
• https://appsilon.com/r-shiny-faster-u...
• https://appsilon.com/super-solutions-...
Extract computations (less CPU usage)
• https://appsilon.com/shiny-worker-pac...
• https://rstudio.github.io/promises/ar...
• https://docs.rstudio.com/resources/pl...
Use a database (less memory usage)
• https://shiny.rstudio.com/articles/ov...
Scale vertically / horizontally (tune one server or add more)
• https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/...
• https://docs.rstudio.com/connect/1.7....


Appsilon is hiring! See all open positions here:
https://appsilon.com/careers/