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Hands-On Dashboard Development with Shiny

You're reading from   Hands-On Dashboard Development with Shiny A practical guide to building effective web applications and dashboards

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789611557
Length 76 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chris Beeley Chris Beeley
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Bootstrap framework

In this section, we will learn about Bootstrap and its framework as well as its usage and the concepts that it brings to web design in the Shiny applications. We will also see how to add a theme to a Bootstrap setup.

Bootstrap is an open source toolkit that makes use of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It is of particular interest to web developers because it enables them to make responsive websites that can seamlessly scale up or down depending on the screen it's viewed on, including PC monitors, tablets, and even mobile phones.

Shiny was built on Bootstrap version 3. However, Bootstrap version 4 is available with minor changes. The main content that attracts Shiny developers about Bootstrap is the grid system.

The grid system is a way of organizing content in a sample format, and is initially done by organizing rows and then by columns. Familiarity with...

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Hands-On Dashboard Development with Shiny
Published in: Aug 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789611557
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