Golem App Development in Positron

[dleopold]

I have found myself needing to manage multiple R versions and decided to give the new IDE from Posit, Positron, a spin. One thing I have not figured out is how to get my golem projects to open in my browser instead of the internal viewer pane. In RStudio, I simply add options(shiny.launch.browser = T) to the project's .Rprofile. I can not seem to get the same behavior in Positron. I am posting here because I can get "vanilla" shiny apps to launch in the browser by modifying the Positron setting, "shiny.previewType": "external". But, this does not affect how my golem projects open. For efficient golem app development in Positron I think it is necessary to be able to use an external browser as the default.

[dleopold]

I have a workable solution for now (probably not optimal). I created an app.R file in the project root directory with the following:

options(shiny.autoreload = FALSE)
options(golem.app.prod = FALSE)
devtools::document()
run_app()