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.

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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!

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Theming
UI Components
Visualization
Frameworks
Backend
Deploy
Developer Tools
Miscellaneous
Shiny for Python

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.