Shinylive - Running R and Python Dashboards without a Server

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Demonstrates running full Shiny R and Python dashboards entirely in the browser by compiling runtimes to WebAssembly and using webR/pyodide plus a service-worker proxy to emulate the websocket server. Exports an app folder that can be served from S3, shows a working histogram demo and on-the-fly package installs, warns first-load latency and that only about 10k of ~20k CRAN packages are currently available, and confirms the browser-only apps run and scale without server infrastructure.

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1. 0:00Shinylive introduction
2. 7:18What is Shiny
3. 28:17Deployment headaches
4. 36:56Shinylive and web assembly to the rescue
5. 59:00Break
6. 1:03:53Shiny and databases
7. 1:09:44Shinylive in browser
8. 1:23:52Demo: Shiny app
9. 1:32:36Challenges and limits
10. 1:39:27Future outlook

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