Additional R Shiny Best Practice

[christopherdias11]

As part of DfE Dashboard Standards review, we are looking to drive "best practice" in Shiny apps/content in general.

Suggestion is to build on the documentation already in the analyst guide to point people towards useful resources. The Creating R Shiny dashboards section is most appropriate place for this but we can also look to expand out to Rmarkdown and Quarto.

This will include a few aspects:

• Recommended resources for getting started
• File structure
• Creating tables
• Databasing
• Testing
• Theming

[jen-machin]

Analysts Guide: Additional RShiny best practice

[wikki13]

• Make use of shinyModules to segregate your app into reusable modules.
• Use functions like reactive(), observe(), eventReactive() to reduce your apps high computation.
• Make use of modal dialogues and notifications for a clean and modern outcomes of your app.