- I want to use
Rto its advantages (data manipulation, modeling, viz, etc.) and then host my work on a website. - I want to do this without recreating my work in
JSplotting libraries. Plumbercan be used to create REST API endpoints out ofRobjects/functions to be called from my website.
- This API will be hosted as a single backend service for all of my projects
- It is necessary to programmatically set up
Plumberas a mounted router due to all the different endpoints to manage
mario
| plumber.R (root router)
|
|└──project_1
| │ plot.R (endpoints defined here)
|
|└──project_2
| │ plot.R (endpoints defined here)Plumberhas integrations with DigitalOcean but building aDockerimage allows for more flexibility in hosting options- Heroku is free (with caveats) so I have Dockerized the API, hosted it as a Heroku app, & integrated it into my Express app
Travis CIis then set up to automatically re-build the hosted API whenever I push changes to the master branch