1.7 Visualising reactive expressions

The flow visualised in 2.1 now has a middle layer - a reactive expression.

Which lives in the server function of the app. The ui to server connections can be visualised like this:

Using our ‘first app’ as an example:

A good way to see this in action is to use Shiny’s showcase mode:

runApp("examples/01-your_first_shiny_app/app-data-example-final.R", display.mode = "showcase")

You can read more about the different Shiny display modes here.