#rstats Q: I'm trying to make a flexdashboard (or Quarto dashboard or whatever) that displays data dynamically when loading in the browser (like pulling from an API). It looks like running a full Shiny server is the only way to get that to work. Is there some other way to populate it w/live data?
Or alternatively, all the data comes from JSON that gets spat out of RESTful API URLs, and all I really need to do is show values from the JSON results. Is there a nice easy non-Shiny, non-R way of making JSON-backed dashboards?
There's a brand new shinylive for R package(?) And quarto extension that I just heard about by watching the posit conf video [1]. This is the best reference I could find quickly, but you might find more with a bit more searching https://github.com/coatless-quarto/r-shinylive-demo
@hrbrmstr@markigra Oooh cool I'll hunt around those experiments to see what might work.
Alternatively, I have a {plumber} API that I can use to do all the heavy lifting and spit out JSON, but I don't think flexdashboard has a way to dynamically grab URLs like that and update plots/text
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