Hi!
Tabler has been amazing for my work as a UI tool.
I think I got frustrated with Shiny (R).
After years co-maintaining the WebTechnologies CRAN task view, and creating (and still maintaining) Tabler for R (https://cran.r-project.org/package=tabler), I feel like developing my own software to run dashboards.
My issue with Shiny is in its dependencies. I recently proposed a few patches to httpuv to ameliorate some ABI issues and I received a message saying that I do not know about software collaboration and software development despite answering all the questions I received.
After this outcome (I sent multiple follow up emails, all ignored), I feel that I can redirect that energy to start working on a fully FOSS alternative to Shiny Server. I have "Tabler Server" in mind but I need to know if you would object the name.
The idea would be to expand the current Tabler for R, which is a UI layer on top of Shiny, and turn it into a full HTTP server framework to serve dashboards from any Unix machine. My preliminary idea is:
- Permissive license (Apache)
- Do not have Pro version (currently some features like password protected dashboards in Shiny require a paid license)
- Offer login (e.g, email + pass, PAM, Google, LDAP, etc) features
I am not asking for any kind of funding.
Hi!
Tabler has been amazing for my work as a UI tool.
I think I got frustrated with Shiny (R).
After years co-maintaining the WebTechnologies CRAN task view, and creating (and still maintaining) Tabler for R (https://cran.r-project.org/package=tabler), I feel like developing my own software to run dashboards.
My issue with Shiny is in its dependencies. I recently proposed a few patches to httpuv to ameliorate some ABI issues and I received a message saying that I do not know about software collaboration and software development despite answering all the questions I received.
After this outcome (I sent multiple follow up emails, all ignored), I feel that I can redirect that energy to start working on a fully FOSS alternative to Shiny Server. I have "Tabler Server" in mind but I need to know if you would object the name.
The idea would be to expand the current Tabler for R, which is a UI layer on top of Shiny, and turn it into a full HTTP server framework to serve dashboards from any Unix machine. My preliminary idea is:
I am not asking for any kind of funding.