The goal is to be able to reproduce a website like "adv-r.had.co.nz", writing the content using rmd files, and to be able to embed (and serve) shiny content.
The way suggested by RStudio, in their rmarkdown documentation, is that the author provides an Rmd document to shiny-server, and it renders the entire document (including shiny) whenever the user demands it. In essence, shiny-server takes over the job that jekyll does for "adv-r.had.co.nz".
I have some questions about performance, caching strategies, and the like - but those will wait until I understand better the process.
There are formatting options; the author can create a template and tell shiny-server to use it when compiling. Looking again at the documentation, it seems that the tempate functions are defined in a package, then each Rmd file invokes the package and the template function in the output:
bit of yaml. The tem