shiny.webawesome-package: shiny.webawesome: Shiny Bindings for Web Awesome Components

In shiny.webawesome: 'shiny' Bindings for 'Web Awesome' Components

shiny.webawesome: Shiny Bindings for Web Awesome Components

Description

Provides an R and Shiny interface to the Web Awesome component library.

Details

shiny.webawesome is a generator-driven package that exposes Web Awesome components as R functions for use in Shiny applications. Most component wrappers are generated from the upstream Web Awesome metadata file custom-elements.json, which the package treats as its primary component source of truth.

The package aims to stay close to upstream Web Awesome names, conventions, and component APIs while adopting normal R conventions such as snake_case argument names. Because Web Awesome lives in the browser and Shiny spans both server and client, the package also includes a curated Shiny binding layer plus a small set of package-level helpers for layout, browser commands, and app-local JavaScript.

Main package surfaces

The package exposes several complementary surfaces:

• generated component wrappers such as wa_button() and wa_select()

• layout helpers such as webawesomePage() and wa_container()

• generated Shiny bindings and update helpers for selected interactive components

• command-layer helpers such as wa_set_property() and wa_call_method()

• the narrow browser-glue helper wa_js()

• the package helper wa_version() for reporting the bundled Web Awesome version

Package options

The package currently uses the option shiny.webawesome.warnings to control selected runtime warnings and diagnostics.

This option should be a named list. Known keys currently include:

• missing_tree_item_id

• command_layer

• command_layer_debug

Example:

options(shiny.webawesome.warnings = list(command_layer_debug = TRUE))

Learn more

For an introductory guide, see vignette("get-started", package = "shiny.webawesome"). For function-specific details, use the package help pages such as ?webawesomePage, ?wa_set_property, ?wa_call_method, ?wa_js, and ?wa_version.

Author(s)

Maintainer: M. B. Anand [e-mail]

See Also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/mbanand/shiny.webawesome

• https://www.shiny-webawesome.org

• Report bugs at https://github.com/mbanand/shiny.webawesome/issues

shiny.webawesome documentation built on April 22, 2026, 1:09 a.m.