Awesome Shiny Extensions

A curated list of awesome R and Python packages offering extended UI or server components to the web framework Shiny.

Your contribution is welcomed. Please create a pull request or issue to add packages to the list.

• Inspired by: awesome-react-components and awesome-rshiny.
• Please send pull requests: contributing guide and code of conduct.
• A special thanks to all the package authors for making the world a better place!

Contents

• Theming
  • Generic Theming
  • Dashboard Theming
  • Mobile Theming
  • Theme Customization
• UI Components
  • Bootstrap
  • File Input
  • Special Input
  • Loader
  • Feedback / Alert / Notification
  • Walkthrough / Tooltip / Help
  • Clipboard
  • Color Picker
  • Editor
  • Chat
  • Table
  • Drawers
  • Drag and Drop
  • Text
  • Image / Audio / Video
  • PDF
  • Icon Font
  • Image Comparison
  • Code Diff
  • Calendar
  • Notebooks
  • Animation Effects
  • i18n
  • React
  • Vue.js
  • Advanced Interactivity
• Visualization
  • General-Purpose
  • Scatterplot
  • Parallel Coordinates
  • Time Series
  • Tree and Hierarchical Data
  • Network and Graph Data
  • Categorical Data
  • Diagrams
  • Heatmap
  • Maps and Spatial Data
  • Sparkline
  • Word Cloud
  • Biological Data
  • Chemical Data
  • WebGL
  • Augmented and Virtual Reality
• Frameworks
  • Foundational frameworks
  • Scaffolding
  • Framework extensions
• Backend
  • Database
  • Persistent Data Storage
  • API Frameworks
  • URL Routing
  • Authentication
  • Job Scheduling
  • Web APIs Integration
  • Notification Integration
  • Cloud Integration
  • G Suite Integration
• Deploy
  • Remote Deploy
  • Desktop Deploy
  • Static Server Deploy
• Developer Tools
  • Prototyping
  • Modularization
  • Debugging
  • Testing
  • Profiling
  • Scaling
  • Monitoring and Analytics
• Miscellaneous
  • UI Customization
  • Dependency Resolution
  • Editor Extensions
  • Books
  • Videos / Screencasts
• Shiny for Python
  • Python - Theming
  • Python - UI Components
  • Python - Frameworks
  • Python - Deploy
  • Python - Persistent Data Storage

Theming

An awesome Shiny app often looks different from the default Bootstrap theme.

Generic Theming

• shinythemes - Bootswatch themes (Bootstrap 3) for Shiny.
• shiny.semantic - Fomantic UI (formerly Semantic UI) for Shiny.
• shiny.fluent - Fluent UI for Shiny apps.
• shiny.blueprint - Palantir's Blueprint for Shiny apps.
• shinymaterial - Material Design for Shiny with Materialize.css.
• shinyUIkit - UIkit API for Shiny.
• fullPage - Single page styles for Shiny apps.
• shinybulma - Bulma.io for Shiny.
• shinyChakraUI - Chakra UI for Shiny.
• shinyMetroUi - Metro 4 UI for Shiny.
• shinyNextUI - NextUI for Shiny.
• gridlayout - Build dashboard-style layouts for Shiny and R Markdown using CSS Grid.
• flexlayout - A responsive three-column layout for Shiny. Creates up-to three-column layout where the left and right columns collapse into offcanvas elements on tablets and mobile devices.

Dashboard Theming

• shinydashboard - Shiny dashboarding framework based on AdminLTE 2.
• shinydashboardPlus - Additional AdminLTE 2 components for shinydashboard.
• gentelellaShiny - Bootstrap 3 Gentelella theme for Shiny dashboards.
• semantic.dashboard - Fomantic UI for Shiny dashboards.
• bs4Dash - Bootstrap 4 Shiny dashboards using AdminLTE 3.
• argonDash - Bootstrap 4 Argon template for Shiny dashboards.
• tablerDash - Tabler dashboard template for Shiny with Bootstrap 4.

Mobile Theming

• miniUI - Widgets and layouts for Shiny apps working on small screens. Designed for creating Shiny Gadgets.
• shinyMobile - Theming Shiny apps with Framework7, a full featured HTML framework for building iOS & Android apps.

Theme Customization

• bslib - Tools for theming Shiny and R Markdown from R via Bootstrap (3 or 4) Sass.
• fresh - Create fresh themes for use in shiny & shinydashboard applications and flexdashboard documents.
• Rnightly - An R wrapper of the JavaScript library Nightly.
• linne - Write CSS in R.
• designer - Shiny UI prototype builder allowing drag and drop UI components before saving the equivalent R code.

UI Components

Frontend UI components for special input/output types.

Bootstrap

• bsplus - Bootstrap 3 addons for Shiny and R Markdown (collapsible elements, accordion panels, accordion-sidebar sets, tooltips, popovers, modals, carousels).
• bsutils - UI utilities for Bootstrap 5 and Shiny.
• litter - Lit components for Shiny.
• ShinyWidgets - Bootstrap 3 custom widgets for Shiny (switches, checkboxes, sweet alerts, slider text, knob inputs, select pickers, search bar, dropdown buttons).
• shinyBS - Bootstrap 3 components for Shiny (alerts, tooltips, popovers, modals, collapsible panels, button upgrades).
• shinyLP - Bootstrap 3 landing pages for Shiny apps.
• shinypanels - Shiny layout with collapsible panels.
• slickR - Carousels for Shiny apps using slick.js.
• spsComps - Additional Bootstrap 3 custom UI components (gallery, panels, buttons, animation and more) and additional Shiny server components (exception catch, validation, etc.).

File Input

• shinyFiles - A server-side file system viewer for Shiny.
• directoryInput - Shiny input widget for selecting directories.

Special Input

• shinyTime - A timeInput widget for Shiny.
• shinyDatetimePickers - Datetime pickers for Shiny.
• DateTimeRangePicker - A datetime range picker widget for Shiny.
• shinyMatrix - Matrix input for Shiny.
• shinyCleave - Customized text inputs (phone number, ZIP code, currency, credit card) based on Cleave.js.
• shinySelect - A wrapper of the react-select library that supports grouped, sortable items with Font Awesome icons, KaTeX formulas, and Bootstrap tooltips.
• regexSelect - Enable regular expression searches within a Shiny selectize object.
• cascadeSelect - Cascade select widget for Shiny, useful for selection of hierarchical choices.
• reactCheckbox - Checkbox group input for Shiny, with a head checkbox allowing to check or uncheck all the checkboxes in the group.
• ShinyRatingInput - Star rating inputs for Shiny based on bootstrap-rating.
• algo - Implements the Algolia Places address search auto completion menu on shiny text inputs.
• shinyChakraSlider - Combined slider and number input for Shiny.
• histoslider - A histogram slider input binding for Shiny. Supports creating histograms from numeric, date, and date-time vectors.
• shinynlq - Natural language queries (NLQs) for Shiny as a bslib custom component.
• shinyMultiActionButton - A multi-action button for Shiny.
• NestedMenu - Multi-level dropdown menu selection input.
• codeModules - Shiny modules to import/manipulate/export tabular data, download plots/tables/widgets, and output code with syntax highlighting using highlight.js.
• shiny-highlight-rmarkdown - R code and R Markdown code output syntax highlighting using highlight.js.

Loader

• shinycssloaders - CSS loader animations for Shiny outputs.
• shinycustomloader - Custom css/html or gif/image loaders for Shiny outputs.
• shinybusy - Minimal busy indicator for Shiny apps.
• shiny.emptystate - Empty state components for Shiny.
• shinydisconnect - Show a nice message when a Shiny app disconnects or errors.
• waiter - Splash loading screens for Shiny.
• sever - Customize Shiny's disconnected screen.
• shiny-fcp-loader - Shiny app template with a loading screen that aims to minimize the time to First Contentful Paint (FCP).
• shiny-loading-skeleton - Shiny app template with an animated, fully customizable skeleton loader.

Feedback / Alert / Notification

• shinyFeedback - Display user feedback next to Shiny inputs.
• shinyalert - Create pretty popup messages (modals) in Shiny apps.
• shinytoastr - Notifications for Shiny apps, via toastr.
• shinyToastify - A wrapper of the React-Toastify library for Shiny.
• shinypop - Collection of notifications, confirm dialogs, and alerts for Shiny apps based on noty, notie, push.js, and notiflix.
• shinyvalidate - Add input validation capabilities to Shiny.
• awn - Awesome Notifications for Shiny.

Walkthrough / Tooltip / Help

• rintrojs - Wrapper for Intro.js to create step-by-step introductions and clickable hints.
• tippy - Wrapper for Tippy.js to add tooltips to R Markdown documents or Shiny apps.
• cicerone - Create guided tours for Shiny apps using driver.js.
• shinyhelper - Add Markdown help files to Shiny app elements.
• scrollrevealR - Animate shiny elements when they scroll into view using the scrollrevealjs library.
• faq - Accordion-based FAQ component with expand/collapse control.
• flashCard - HTML widget for creating flippable flash cards.
• prompter - Add tooltips in Shiny apps with 'hint.css'.

Clipboard

• rclipboard - Wrapper for clipboard.js to create copy-to-clipboard buttons for Shiny apps.

Color Picker

• colourpicker - A colour picker tool for Shiny.
• gradientPickerD3 - Interactive color gradient picker based on jquery-gradient-picker.
• gradientInput - Another approach at gradient colour picker, implemented using the colourpicker package.

Editor