--- title: Tabler Server A minimal framework to create web... description: Tabler Server is an early-stage, minimal framework for building web dashboards in R without relying on Shiny. Built on top of the existing tabler R package... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tabler-server-a-minimal-framework-to-create-web-dashboards-in-r-s6fsk60ls twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Tabler Server A minimal framework to create web dashboards in R | daily.dev og:description: Tabler Server is an early-stage, minimal framework for building web dashboards in R without relying on Shiny. Built on top of the existing tabler R package... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tabler-server-a-minimal-framework-to-create-web-dashboards-in-r-s6fsk60ls og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/S6fsk60ls.png og:image:alt: Tabler Server A minimal framework to create web dashboards in R og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Tabler Server A minimal framework to create web dashboards in R **[R-bloggers](https://daily.dev/sources/rbloggers)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Tabler Server is an early-stage, minimal framework for building web dashboards in R without relying on Shiny. Built on top of the existing tabler R package (which wraps the Tabler admin UI template), this experimental version drops Shiny from its core while remaining compatible with Shiny widgets like d3po. A notable feature is clean URL state synchronization — moving sliders or inputs updates the URL, and changing the URL updates the app state, without URL-encoded quotes. Tabler Server handles deployment of tabler apps on Linux machines. The project is released under Apache License 2.0. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Is there a lightweight alternative to Shiny for building R web dashboards? Tabler Server is an experimental framework built on the tabler R package that drops Shiny entirely from its codebase while remaining compatible with Shiny widgets such as d3po. It is designed to manage tabler apps on a Linux machine and simplifies URL query parameters, avoiding the quote-encoded strings Shiny produces, so URLs like ?year=2000&country=gbr stay clean and directly editable. _daily.dev surfaces emerging R tooling like this for developers weighing dashboard framework choices._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Tabler 0.1.0 is here\!](https://daily.dev/posts/tabler-0-1-0-is-here--n0sfxrik9) · R-bloggers · 21 upvotes · 1 comments - [More progress with Tabler for R](https://daily.dev/posts/more-progress-with-tabler-for-r-oeanltnmm) · R-bloggers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [taleshape-com/shaper: Visualize and share your data. All in SQL. 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