Google Cloud Shiny Server Setup

Setup for Google Cloud VM instance with Shiny Server and a reverse proxy for your personal website.

Basically, I wanted to build my own shiny server, and it became a much larger process than I expected.

Issues I ran into and solved:

1. Setting up a Shiny server on Google Cloud and not AWS, which was what I found for most walkthroughs
2. Getting Shiny to work on the compute engine with SQL & APIs
3. Getting Shiny to run through a reverse proxy since the native shiny server is only http and required a :3838
4. Getting polygons and some map features to work

Order of files:

1. Google Cloud Setup
2. Shiny Server NGINX Setup
3. Shiny Setup
4. Additional Setup

Call for packages that I frequently use:

R Packages

Helpful Links

Shiny Server Admin Guide
NGIX Reverse Proxy Guide
Shiny