# hyperverse

> A modular R ecosystem for building modern web applications the web way: htmx and plumber2, without the weight of Shiny's server-side reactivity.

hyperverse is a set of R packages centred on **htmxr**, which wraps [htmx](https://htmx.org) for R and is served by [plumber2](https://plumber2.posit.co/). The model is HTML over the wire: an R route returns an HTML fragment rather than JSON, and htmx swaps it into the page. Apps are stateless and deploy like any HTTP service.

It is not a Shiny replacement. Shiny keeps one R session per user and decides what to re-render; hyperverse answers explicit HTTP requests. See the Why page for the trade-offs.

The full text of every page is at https://hyperverse.world/llms-full.txt.

## Documentation

- [Why hyperverse?](https://hyperverse.world/why): How it differs from Shiny: HTTP instead of WebSocket, stateless instead of one R session per user, and when to choose each.
- [Get started](https://hyperverse.world/getting-started): Install htmxr, the four-step htmx cycle, and a first HTML-over-the-wire app in R.
- [Ecosystem](https://hyperverse.world/ecosystem): The R packages that make up hyperverse, with their status, plus compatible third-party packages.

## Guides

- [Monitoring errors in production](https://hyperverse.world/guides/monitoring): Track production R errors with glitchtipr: one plumber2 annotation sends failures to GlitchTip with full request context.

## Blog

- [That's not real web](https://hyperverse.world/blog/thats-not-real-web): A former boss told me that what I built with Shiny was not real web. It took me years, and a package, to work out which half of that he got right. (2026-09-16)

## Talks

- [Rencontres R 2026 à Nantes](https://hyperverse.world/talks/rencontres-r-2026/index.html): Découverte de l'écosystème hyperverse : htmxr, plumber2, alpiner, glitchtipr. Présentée dans la session « Production ». Slides, 2026-06-17.
- [Mini-meetup interne ThinkR](https://hyperverse.world/talks/mini-meetup-thinkr-mai-2026/index.html): Présentation de l'écosystème hyperverse (htmxr, alpiner, glitchtipr) et de l'approche "web standard" pour faire des apps R. Slides, 2026-05-29.

## Source

- [github.com/hyperverse-r](https://github.com/hyperverse-r): every package in the ecosystem.
- [htmxr reference](https://hyperverse-r.github.io/htmxr/): the function reference, which this site does not duplicate.