A new way to build your Shiny app's UI

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Issue from 2016 with 18 thumbs up motivates two concrete tools: gridlayout — an R package that maps a text-table layout to CSS Grid using grid_page and area names and places widgets with grid_card/grid_card_plot — and shinyuieditor — an R package that launches a browser-based drag-and-drop editor via launch_editor, edits gridlayout-based UIs, writes human-readable R UI code, supports templates (chickweights, geyser), is R-only and alpha-quality but syncs live with code.

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1. 0:00Shiny UI challenge
2. 2:13Shiny UI needs improvement
3. 3:41Grid layout for Shiny apps
4. 6:55Shiny UI Editor
5. 10:49Shiny UI Editor in practice
6. 16:52Shiny UI Editor philosophy
7. 19:23Closing

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