11.1 Introduction

Bookmarking: a user can conveniently return to a specific state of the Shiny app

As it it stands, Shiny apps are single-page application (SPA) - a web application or website that interacts with the user by dynamically rewriting the current web page with new data from the web server. This was one of the major drawbacks of employing Shiny apps. It is super inconvenient for you and your stakeholders to have to input the exact parameters in your application in order to produce the results you are trying to share.

Now with bookmarking functionality, this problem is addressed.