Shiny Alternatives

Shiny is described as 'R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R. You can host standalone apps on a webpage or embed them in R Markdown documents or build dashboards. You can also extend your Shiny apps with CSS themes, htmlwidgets, and JavaScript actions' and is an app in the development category. There are five alternatives to Shiny for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, SaaS, Mac and Windows apps. The best Shiny alternative is Streamlit, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Shiny are Dash by Plotly, Voilà, Mercury framework and Panel.

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Streamlit
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Freemium • Open Source
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6 Streamlit alternatives
Streamlit is an open-source Python library that makes it easy to create and share beautiful, custom web apps for machine learning and data science. In just a few minutes you can build and deploy powerful data apps.
- - Streamlit is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to Shiny.
- - Streamlit is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Shiny.
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Dash by Plotly
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Dash is a Python framework for building analytical web applications. No JavaScript required.
- - Dash by Plotly is the most popular SaaS alternative to Shiny.
- - Dash by Plotly is the most popular commercial alternative to Shiny.
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Voilà
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Free • Open Source
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6 Voilà alternatives
Voilà turns Jupyter notebooks into standalone web applications. Each user connecting to the Voilà tornado application gets a dedicated Jupyter kernel which can execute the callbacks to changes in Jupyter interactive widgets.
- - Voilà is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Shiny.
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Mercury framework
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5 Mercury framework alternatives
Mercury allows you to add interactive widgets in Python notebooks, so you can share notebooks as web applications. Forget about rewriting notebooks to web frameworks just to share your results. Mercury offers a set of widgets with simple re-execution of cells.
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Panel
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Free • Open Source
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6 Panel alternatives
Panel is an open-source Python library that lets you create custom interactive web apps and dashboards by connecting user-defined widgets to plots, images, tables, or text.
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Voilà

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