The Cake planning app is a R Shiny application that can be used for planning cake, coffee, or similar events at a workplace.
However, its main purpose is pedagogical. We use the app to learn software development in a team, and specifically how to write production grade shiny apps, and how to deploy apps to Posit Connect using CI/CD.
Initially the app was meant to be an example of how the pins package
can be used to read and write that to Posit Connect. But the app has
since grown its teaching domain to include renv, github actions,
{golem}, and maybe some other things.
The main branch of the app is being deployed to Posit Connect, and requires a pin that is also hosted there. This is why, the app from the main branch won’t work for you if you try to run it.
We maintain a mostly-up-to-date
local-testing
branch that works with an in-memory pin using pins::board_temp().