# nanxstats/awesome-shiny-extensions

🐝 Awesome R and Python packages offering extended UI or server components for the web framework Shiny

Repository: https://github.com/nanxstats/awesome-shiny-extensions
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome-shiny-extensions
Language: R
License: CC0-1.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: shiny, rshiny, awesome, awesome-list, shiny-inputs, shiny-themes, shiny-apps, shiny-for-python
Last push: 2026-08-07T04:33:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2830, "days_push": 26, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1669, forks 186 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:19.848751+00:00)

## What it is
A curated awesome-list of R and Python packages that extend the Shiny web framework with additional UI components, theming, visualization, and backend capabilities. It serves as a discovery index linking to community packages rather than being software itself.

## Use cases
- find shiny input widgets for my dashboard
- discover packages to theme a shiny app
- looking for shiny components for tables and calendars
- find visualization libraries for shiny apps
- how to add authentication to a shiny app
- find shiny extension packages for python
- locate shiny packages for maps and spatial data

## When to choose
- you build Shiny apps in R or Python and want to discover ecosystem packages
- you need a categorized overview of UI, theming, and visualization extensions for Shiny
- you want a maintained starting point before building custom Shiny components

## When to avoid
- you need an actual software library rather than a list of links
- you are not using the Shiny framework
- you need guaranteed up-to-date package documentation - the list only links to external projects

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: ui-components, web-framework, data-visualization, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, data-visualization, developer-tools, awesome-lists
- platform: python
- tags: shiny, r, awesome-list, curated-list, shiny-extensions, shiny-for-python, dashboard-theming, web-server

## Member repositories
- nanxstats/awesome-shiny-extensions (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:19.848751+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:42:47.219056+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nanxstats/awesome-shiny-extensions (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:19.848751+00:00, sha aa815b10289e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.