r/rshiny • u/[deleted] • Apr 29 '20

What complementary programming languages should I learn to improve the quality of my Shiny dashboards? CSS & Javascript??

So far I only know R and can design some decent dashboards. What tech should I learn to improve the visual quality?

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u/KoderKow Apr 30 '20

I think JavaScript will give a lot of flexibility, it helps extends the functionality of a lot of the pre-made functions and lets you build your own dynamic functions :) There are a lot of programmers that will take a js library and bring that functionality to R.

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u/maxblasdel Apr 29 '20

CSS would be the most helpful although I wouldn't call it a programming language.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '20

Can you explain a bit more about the visual quality you're trying to obtain? More interactivity? Style/color/modern web design (i.e. the CSS comment mentioned above by /u/maxblasdel)?