Mastering Shiny - Book Review

shiny is my goto package for building interactive dashboard. I have built more than fifty shiny apps so far and have found the entire package infrastructure around it to be extremely useful in showcasing data, algos, metrics - you name it. This book by Hadley Wickham came out in 2021 but I never had a chance to go over it, until now. It was wonderful to see so many code patterns/hacks that I have learned over years appearing in the book. Needless to say, I have learned so many fascinating aspects of shiny from this book. This blogpost summarizes some of my learnings/relearnings from the book: