# Deploying Apps with {golem}

#### Colin Fay

#### 2022-03-04

## About the `run_app()` function

When launching the app, you might have noticed that the `dev/run_dev.R` function calls `run_app()`, which has the following structure:

    run_app <- function(
      ...
    ) {
      with_golem_options(
        app = shinyApp(
          ui = app_ui,
          server = app_server
        ),
        golem_opts = list(...)
      )
    }

This function might looks a little bit weird, but there’s a long story behind it, and you can read more about it there.

But long story short, this combination of `with_golem_options` & `golem_opts = list(...)` allows you to pass argument to the function to be used inside the application, from UI or from server side, which you can get with `get_golem_options()`.

    run_app(this = "that")
    # And in the app
    this <- get_golem_options("this")

The idea is to provide more flexibility for deployment on each platform you want to run your app on.

## Deploying Apps with `{golem}`

The `dev/03_deploy.R` file contains function for deploying on various platforms.

### RStudio Products

    golem::add_rstudioconnect_file()
    golem::add_shinyappsio_file()
    golem::add_shinyserver_file()

### Docker

    # If you want to deploy via a generic Dockerfile
    golem::add_dockerfile()

    # If you want to deploy to ShinyProxy
    golem::add_dockerfile_shinyproxy()

    # If you want to deploy to Heroku
    golem::add_dockerfile_heroku()