Hi Yadd,

On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 11:09:21 +0530 Nilesh Patra <nil...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 07:45:35PM +0000, Krüger, Sebastian wrote:
> > I'm not a Shiny user either (so far), however the plan is for our institute 
> > to provide Shiny applications for certain users. (I will probably write 
> > some of these applications at some point, and I also administrate the web 
> > server...).
> > 
> > My test system: I have a current Debian sid with R, cleaned from nodejs 
> > (apt...) and thus without shiny-server.
> > 
> > Now I install the shiny-server (apt install shiny-server).
> > 
> > In the packages r-cran-shiny and shiny-server are sample applications. I 
> > copied the examples from the r-cran-shiny package (e.g. 
> > /usr/lib/R/site-library/shiny/examples/01_hello) to /srv/shiny-server and 
> > could (after restarting shiny-server (systemctl restart shiny-server)) 
> > access the application via firefox: http://localhost:3838/01_hello/ .
> > 
> > These applications consist of a UI part (user interface) and a result part. 
> > In the UI part, the web user can set (e.g.) parameters for the display in 
> > the result part.
> > 
> > The problem: After installation, only the UI part is visible via the web 
> > browser.
> > The result part is probably not visible because it does not receive any 
> > data from the UI part.
> > 
> > With the help of a deb package for the Shiny sever from rstudio and the 
> > Debian package, I had at some point identified the sockjs installation as 
> > the problem...
> > 
> > To get the Shiny application running (in the current scenario), I got the 
> > latest version of sockjs from github, "comped" it with npm () and then 
> > replaced the javascript files under "/usr/share/nodejs/sockjs/lib/" (from 
> > the Debian installation) with the files from the sockjs (github) package 
> > tree ".../node_modules/sockjs/lib/".
> > 
> > After restarting the Shiny server, you can now also see the result part in 
> > the web browser and the Shiny application works. 
> > 
> > I am not a javascript/coffeescript friend or expert. The only thing I could 
> > see is that both my sockjs scripts and the Debian ones are based on the 
> > same github version 
> > (https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-node/releases/tag/v0.3.24), but the 
> > Debian version was generated with coffescript 2.7.0 and "my" version was 
> > generated with coffescript 1.12.7.
> 
> Looks like the coffeescript thingy in #1016732 is still unfixed and I've 
> re-opened the BR. Could you please
> consider taking another look?

Sorry for pinging you again, but would you be able to take a look at this 
please?
I don't know enough coffeescript to be able to check this and it'd be
awesome if you could consider taking a look.

-- 
Best,
Nilesh

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