After covering the most important issues regarding the programming of a Shiny application, it is now necessary to introduce the different possibilities of fulfilling the main purpose of developing a Shiny application, that is, exhibiting it.

In this chapter, we will look at the different ways of sharing an application, that is, from simply passing the code files to setting up a web address to make it accessible to anyone capable of connecting to it.

In this sense, it is important to keep in mind that in the majority of cases, it will be intended to make these applications accessible to everyone, regardless of their programming skills or the software they have installed on their computers. Although this might sound trivial or obvious, doing this optimally implies that certain specific knowledge is required to configure the applications correctly.

Once the application is ready, there are mainly four ways of sharing it as follows: