Consulting with Shiny Panel Discussion

In this special live recording of the Shiny Developer Series held at the first-ever Appsilon Shiny Conferenbce, host Eric Nantz welcomed back an all-star panel of Dean Attali, Tanya Cashorali, Pedro Silva, and Mike Thomas to share their unique perspectives on the life of a Shiny application developer in the world of consulting. The panel discussed topics such as their favorite techniques used across production apps, advice for becoming a Shiny consultant, and ways Shiny can integrate seamlessly with other tech stacks.

Resources mentioned in the episode

• Shiny Modules: shiny.rstudio.com/articles/modules.html
• Overview of the {sass} package: rstudio.github.io/sass/articles/sass.html
• {waiter} Loading screens for Shiny: github.com/JohnCoene/waiter
• Tooltips with {shinyBS}: ebailey78.github.io/shinyBS/docs/Tooltips_and_Popovers.html
• Interactive web-based data visualization with R, {plotly}, and {shiny}: plotly-r.com
• {shinyjs} Easily improve the user experience of your Shiny apps in seconds: deanattali.com/shinyjs/
• {reactable} Interactive data tables for R: glin.github.io/reactable
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Episode Timestamps

00:00:00 Panelist introductions

00:03:20 What are key skills to build production-quality Shiny apps

00:10:05 Creating an app that doesn't feel like a standard Shiny app

00:17:15 Getting started with consulting/freelancing Shiny development

00:27:00 Advice for teams to increase Shiny dev skills

00:36:10 Tools/packages used every day

00:45:15 App development workflows

00:49:30 Underrated techniques

00:58:20 Episode wrapup

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