How to deploy a Quarto Interactive Document on a Shiny Server?

[cutterkom]

Hey,

I want to deploy a Quarto Interactive Document on a Shiny Server in order to show it to the world. I expected it to work out of the box: Upload and ready to go.

But I was wrong... What do I have to do besides uploading the .qmd to the Shiny Server? Uploading the .html breaks interactivity, of course.

My Quarto config looks like this:

---
title: "My title"
editor: source
format: 
  html:
    page-layout: full
    self-contained: true
server: shiny
---

```{r}
library(shiny)
...
...

I am aware that the Flexdashboard implementation is planned for Fall 2022, but simple interactive documents should be working as far I understand the post on https://quarto.org/docs/faq/rmarkdown.html.

How can I deploy a Quarto interactive document on a self-hosted Shiny Server?

[jjallaire]

You do indeed need to upload the .html file (as Shiny Server doesn't know how to render the .qmd). This does not break interactivity as the .html includes everything required to run the interactive document (including info on shiny dependencies, etc.).

@jcheng5 Is there anything else special that needs to be done for server: shiny in Quarto interactive docs on Shiny Server?

[cutterkom]

Okay, I see. That works!
But only if it is not self-contained: true

Thanks!

[cutterkom]

Unfortunately, I have to unmark the answer.

This is my qmd file: https://github.com/cutterkom/remove-na-lgbtiq-queer-knowledge-graph/blob/main/apps/remove-na-explore-surroundings/index.qmd

The URL is https://apps.katharinabrunner.de/remove-na-explore-surroundings/

The interactive parts don't work after an update: https://apps.katharinabrunner.de/remove-na-explore-surroundings/index.html
But it was working in a previous version. I did not change anything interactive, just text parts. Is it unstable? Am I missing something?

[jjallaire]

Best way to resolve this is to post an issue here: https://github.com/rstudio/shiny-server

[cutterkom]

I think it's a Quarto issue, not a Shiny Server one, since the local html doesn't work as expected as well (no interactive sections displayed)

[jjallaire]

The feature definitely works. Please see the documentation here: https://quarto.org/docs/interactive/shiny/. You have to call quarto serve document.qmd you can't just open the html in a browser.

[cutterkom]

Okay, weird. I opended an issue: rstudio/shiny-server#530
Thanks for your help.