Introducing ShinyBuilder - an open source, point-and-click dashboard builder GUI

[Mikhail Lisovich]

Dear all,

We are proud to introduce ShinyBuilder, an open source, point-and-click dashboard platform based on R/Shiny which makes it simple to create and share live, connected dashboards. 

To try it out, please see the ShinyBuilder Live Demo.

ShinyBuilder was created with the following goals:

• Easy Access - Can be accessed from any web browser
  
• Easy Authoring - Dashboards are created via a point-and-click GUI, enabling anyone with basic SQL knowledge to set up a professional dashboard in a matter of minutes.
  
• Instantly Connected - ShinyBuilder charts begin as SQL queries, and are immediately linked to a live database. Once created, the charts are refreshed daily & automatically, eliminating need to build ETL workflows.
  
• Extensible & Modular - all major JavaScript libraries used in the project have been wrapped into resusable R/Shiny packages, making it easy to extend ShinyBuilder or to use ShinyBuilder components in your own projects

We've had a great time using ShinyBuilder at iHeartRadio, and hope you do as well!  Comments, suggestions, bug reports/fixes etc. are warmly welcomed!

[Jeff Allen]

This is great!

I haven't had a chance to dig in to see everything you've got here, but this looks like a really promising package. Keep up the good work!

Jeff

[Mikhail Lisovich]

Thanks for the kind words, Jeff! 

And thanks for building shinyAce!  It was a huge help in developing the data input component of ShinyBuilder, and we learned a whole lot from it while learning to build our Shiny/JS components.  

Our own modules require further work. shinyMCE is fully finished, but we still need to migrate out some custom js/R code to finish shinyGoogleCharts/shinyGridster. Once they're in a good state, we may merge gcharts/gridster into corresponding libraries from the RStudio team.  Really looking forward to seeing them used by the R community to build awesome apps :)

Misha

[ZJ]

Pretty Awesome. Hope to see it further developed. I am keen to use this at work. Unfortunately github is one of those blocked domains. But I will try it at home. Been away from the Shiny community for a few months and all these development just happened!

[Emmanuel]

Hi all,

Since Feb 18th, Google Chart editor does not work anymore through ShinyBuidler interface. Google team did some changes, and I (we?) can not use anymore shinyBuilder.

Is someone able to help to fix this issue ?

for more information, see https://code.google.com/p/google-visualization-api-issues/issues/detail?id=1880 where I opened an issue.

To reproduce the problem:

1.go to https://iheart.shinyapps.io/ShinyBuilder/
2.move your mouse on the pie and click on the Graph button. the Google Graph Editor pop up.
3.click on OK
4.go to the javascript console log
5.you get the error message "Uncaught Error: google-visualization-errors: container is null. message: Container is not defined"

Any help appreciated as I'm using shinyBuilder , and it is very usefull !

Emmanuel