Building Web Apps and APIs in R with Ambiorix

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Ambiorix is an R web framework with Express-style syntax that gives full control of the request-response cycle, not a Shiny replacement. It builds multi-page sites and JSON APIs from the same R functions, demoed serving mtcars, iris, airquality as HTML and JSON. Handlers take request and response objects, routes support colon-style parameters and query limits, middleware is available, and proper HTTP status codes (400/404/500) are set programmatically. Links and code on GitHub.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Ambiorix
2. 1:05Ambiorix vs Shiny
3. 2:56Why Ambiorix for multi-page and APIs
4. 4:48Customization trade-offs
5. 5:11HTTP request-response cycle
6. 6:13Demo: data dashboard
7. 8:46Hello world in Ambiorix
8. 9:50HTTP methods GET POST PUT DELETE
9. 10:54Unified logic with HTML and JSON
10. 13:26Dynamic routes with parameters
11. 14:54Query parameters for API flexibility
12. 17:01HTTP error responses and status codes
13. 18:28404 and error handling
14. 19:15Getting started with Ambiorix

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