Thread by @JonTheGeek

The closing keynote is @jcheng describing The Past and Future of #RShiny. He's gonna make us wait through a lot of past before he reveals the future, isn't he? My prediction: the "R" in the standard Shiny hashtag won't make sense anymore. #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

He walks on stage and pretends to not know who @hadleywickham is.

July 31, 2012 was the birth of Shiny, 10 years ago. #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

Shiny started when @fly_upside_down wrote the manipulate tool in rstudio super quickly. #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

(prof whose name I missed, Danny something) made a bunch of applets with manipulate. And had feature requests. #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

Joe didn't want to build it, cuz ui programming gets complex and annoying. #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

May 2012 he saw a screencast for meteor, a new web framework. "There's no event handlers, it just works." Joe stayed up nights thinking about that #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

The prof ided!

https://twitter.com/AmeliaMN/status/1552394778419109888?t=GL1tB_UcoG3y7LbHoka1lA&s=19

#RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

He saw the meteor trick and immediately... Thought it was awesome, but didn't make the connection to build shiny yet. A while later he realized he could make shiny with it! #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

That day, June 15 2012, was supposed to be his last day at @rstudio. He thought his career had plateaued. He was gonna go on leave right after useR2012. But when the shiny idea came to him he was filled with a creative drive. #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

Thankfully @fly_upside_down insisted that we wouldn't have to write html.
7 weeks later they demoed it at JSM. #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

Gah I broke the thread. This is next.

https://twitter.com/JonTheGeek/status/1552396558968168450?t=CvP8GuAXrn4_DJs8T3TO3g&s=19

Then this:

https://twitter.com/JonTheGeek/status/1552396875755659264?t=CvP8GuAXrn4_DJs8T3TO3g&s=19

Soon after that @winston_chang joined the team. And soon they made it relatively easy for us to make badass shiny apps. #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

There were a bunch of reactive frameworks born 2012-2015 that have since died. The #RStats community made Shiny different. #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

There are a bunch of open source packages that build on shiny. (also shinyslack, more info tomorrow at 11:05!) #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

Also multiple books. And @theRcast doing the shiny developer series and other cool shiny stuff! #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

(a pause for us all to say thanks to the great community 👏) #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

Lots of languages have positional args and named, only #RStats lets you put named first. #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf

Nonstandard evaluation is also bizarrely useful for reactivity. #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

Three big questions, answered!

Can we even build it in R? R is the best language for Shiny

Are R users ready to write web apps? R has the best audience for Shiny

Will the R community respond? To an almost absurd degree

#RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

Python is the 2nd best language for everything.... So introducing shiny for python! #PShiny #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

This is alpha. Not ready for production. Will open up today so the community can help bang on it. #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

Very similar conceptually to shiny for R, but also pythonic. #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

shiny.rstudio.com/py to learn more. Remember it's alpha! #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

All the tools currently or soon will support #PyShiny. Shinyapps.io, rstudio connect, shiny server, rstudio, and a new cli tool to deploy. #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

Tomorrow @winston_chang will present the magic trick of running shiny without a server! #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

And for #RShiny... A visual editor for Shiny uis! @NicholasStrayer tomorrow #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

More talks from Greg Swinehart, Barrett Schloerke #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf #RStats

Shiny in the browser MIGHT work for #rstats. They hope. #RStudioConf2022 #RStudioConf