Chatroom with R/Shiny

This is a chat application built using R/Shiny. Using this app we can create multiple user chat room with the help of shiny session.

This also serves as an example for containerizing and running R/Shiny app.

Getting Started

There are three different ways in which you can use this chat app:

1. Building the image
2. Running the docker image
3. Running the deployed app

Building the image

Following are the steps to be followed

1. Clone the repo and navigate to the repo folder:

git clone https://github.com/zatch3301/chat_room.git

cd zatch3301

2. Build and run:

docker build -t shinychat .

docker run -p 4949:4949 shinychat

The app will be available at localhost port 3838

Running the docker image

The image has already been built and pushed to DockerHub tagged zatch3301/shinychat:1.0.0 which can be pulled and run easily by executing the following code:

docker run -p 3838:3838 zatch3301/shinychat:1.0.0

Running the deployed app

The project is also deployed on shinyapps.io and can be accessed from this link