Some Experiences with Shinylive

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Shortly before we finished the first manuscript of our paper “A Comparison of Statistical Methods for Time-To-Event Analyses in Randomized Controlled Trials Under Non-Proportional Hazards”, the first version of shinylive for R was released. I had already written a shiny-app to interactively browse the scenarios and simulation results of our simulation study. This shiny app was hosted at Medical University of Vienna with some limitations on availability and some maintenance overhead.

The presentation of the results of a simulation study are the ideal candidate to port the app to shinylive. The data are entirely public and also don’t change after publication, so no server is needed to update the data or limit access to users. The shinylive app can be hosted as static files on github pages (or anywhere), with high availability and very little maintenance.

So, despite the project of shinylive being quite young I ported our app to shinylive. Here are some of the experiences I made.

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Some Experiences with Shinylive