new-way-to-build-shiny.md

talk_id	talk_slug	talk_type	talk_tags	session_slug	sched_url	talk_title	talk_title_short	talk_materials_url	speakers
22058	new-way-to-build-shiny	regular	design shiny	shiny-app-design	https://rstudioconf2022.sched.com/event/11ib7	A new way to build your Shiny app's UI	A new way to build your Shiny app's UI		name affiliation url username photo bio Nick Strayer RStudio webpage twitter github linkedin affiliation https://nickstrayer.me https://twitter.com/NicholasStrayer https://github.com/nstrayer https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickstrayer/ https://shiny.rstudio.com/ nickstrayer /assets/img/2022Conf/_talks/22058_nick-strayer.jpg Nick is an engineer on the Shiny team working to make web applications with R easy to build, beautiful, and powerful. Nick has a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Vanderbilt University and previously worked as a data journalist at the New York Times.

Shiny helps data scientists create web applications without requiring web development experience. However, there's still a steep learning curve for writing the Ui portion of an app. Unlike an app's server code, which typically only uses a few different Shiny-specific functions, the app's UI code is almost entirely made up of functions with strange syntaxes and often surprising interactions with each other. This paradigm requires a very different mindset than your typical R Script. This talk introduces a new tool to help both new and experienced Shiny developers spend less time writing their app's UI and more time doing data science.