R Shiny
Shares rank 40 of 63 web frameworks by recommenders
Free R package for building interactive web apps, praised by people as an amazing, go-to choice for data work.
Free R package for building interactive web apps, praised by people as an amazing, go-to choice for data work.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 78%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Praised as an amazing, go-to package
“I will agree that Shiny is an amazing package”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “Python is not a great language for data science” “using Streamlit or Shiny is the way to go”
Comment from 24 Jan 2026 in “After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]”
Other web frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other web frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruby on Rails | 337 | 145 | 70% | 12 | 14 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Django | 277 | 97 | 74% | 12 | 15 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Next.js | 127 | 256 | 33% | 12 | 3 yrs6 owners | — |
| Phoenix Framework | 85 | 11 | 89% | 12 | 8 yrs7 owners | Approved |
| R ShinyThis page | 7 | 2 | 78% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“such a good MySpace release of an album called Shiny”
“Shiny UI is morale-boosting”
“R Shiny is dead too which sucks”
“Fine do it with shiny. No?”
“using Streamlit or Shiny is the way to go”
“it makes it possible to run Shiny without a Shiny server”
“I will agree that Shiny is an amazing package”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.