Is it possible to run a golem application on shiny-server?

[gioneves]

I have a shiny app (golem) and I would like to put it on a shiny-server (locally).

golem::add_shinyserver_file()

Which creates an app.R file.

I downloaded the package with devtools::install_github() in other computer.

And I put the folder of this package inside srv/shiny-server/

Suppose my package name is mygolempackage, this is what appears when I run it http://192.000.0.000:3838/mygolempackage/:

When I run a conventional app (with .ui and .server files), it works normally.

But I would like to know if there is a possibility to serve other users through a packaged shiny (created with golem). I appreciate the support.

[ghost]

golem::add_shinyserver_file() should add mygolempackage/app.R. It looks like you're missing that file.

[VincentGuyader]

golem::add_shinyserver_file() should add mygolempackage/app.R. It looks like you're missing that file.

yes, the app.R file is missing in your server.

Regards

[VincentGuyader]

do you manage to deploy your app ?

[ColinFay]

Hey,

> x <- tempdir()

> golem::create_golem(x, overwrite=TRUE)
[...Redacted]
> golem::add_shinyserver_file()
── Creating _disable_autoload.R ─────────────────
✔ Created
✔ Adding '^app\\.R$' to '.Rbuildignore'
✔ Adding '^rsconnect$' to '.Rbuildignore'
✔ Adding 'pkgload' to Imports field in DESCRIPTION
• Refer to functions with `pkgload::fun()`
✔ File created at /private/var/folders/9w/zdlv83ws6csdjnfc5x819gtr0000gn/T/Rtmpk8FUoe/app.R
To deploy, run:
• rsconnect::deployApp()

• Note that you'll need to upload the whole package to Shiny Server

• As you can see the app.R is created to inside the package.

> list.files(x)
 [1] "app.R"                                                                  
 [2] "DESCRIPTION"                                                            
 [3] "dev"                                                                    
 [5] "inst"                                                                   
 [7] "man"                                                                    
 [8] "NAMESPACE"                                                              
 [9] "R"  

• The note does state that you'll need to upload the whole folder to your server (I agree though that the message could be made clearer)

• Note that you'll need to upload the whole package to Shiny Server

• If you need to deploy after installing from remotes::install_github() or via a package manager, you'll need to create the app.R file yourself, with the following code mypkg::run_app() . This solution is documented here : https://engineering-shiny.org/deploy.html#rstudio-environments, but this should be documented in the vignette too.

Let me know if this helps :)

Colin

[gioneves]

do you manage to deploy your app ?

I can not. I already inserted the app.R file and it doesn't work.

I can't leave the source code with the client, just the package. I put the app.R file in the package folder, but now another error appears:

An error has occurred
The application failed to start.

The application exited during initialization.

Thank you for your support.