Web applications with Shiny and React and AI (Winston Chang, Posit) | posit::conf(2025)

Web applications with Shiny and React (and AI) 💬 Speaker(s): Winston Chang If you've ever wanted to have complete control over the UI for a Shiny application, this talk might be for you. In this talk I'll show how to integrate a back end written in Shiny (for R or Python) with a front end written in React.js. This lets you combine Shiny's reactivity with the flexibility of the React web development ecosystem. In the past, writing a front end in React was a large time investment, and would be reserved only for a serious project. However, with today's agentic AI coding tools, it can make sense to create a React front end even for smaller-scale applications. But even with AI involved, you will still need to know some React or be willing to learn about it. 📁 GitHub Repo - https://github.com/wch/shiny-react 📁 CLI tool - https://github.com/wch/create-shiny-react-app 📁 Anthropic Dashboard - https://github.com/wch/anthropic_dashboard posit::conf(2025) Subscribe to posit::conf updates: https://posit.co/about/subscription-management/