Multiple shiny apps used for shiny dashboard inputs and deployment on different droplets

Question

So i have a dashboard but i wish to break this dashboard into smaller apps. The smaller apps will provide inputs into the dashboard.

I have set up a droplet/shiny server. How would i go about doing this? The dashboard and apps would need to be on the server so i can embed them on the website.

Answer 1

In essence, the question is too broad as it is right now. Here are a few pointers to get you going: Since each shiny app "lives" on its own, they can't communicate directly with one another.

What you can do is to have a service which all the apps can talk to, ie, some kind of data base. Once an app changes a status/field/table in the data base, the other apps see that and react accordingly.

I'm pretty sure you can accomplish this with a remote storage, not sure about local storage though.

RStudio has a good tutorial about persistent data storage in shiny apps, so I would start there: Persistent data storage in Shiny apps