shinyds - Designsystemet components for Shiny

shinyds brings Designsystemet — the Norwegian government's shared design system — to Shiny. It provides ds_* R functions that produce accessible, consistently styled UI components following Norwegian public sector design guidelines.

Why shinyds?

Norwegian public sector applications are expected to follow Designsystemet's guidelines for visual consistency and accessibility. shinyds means you don't have to write CSS classes or HTML by hand: call ds_button(), ds_alert(), ds_tabs(), and the right markup, styles, and behaviour come with it. Components that carry Shiny reactivity return values through input$id just like native Shiny inputs.

Installation

From CRAN

install.packages("shinyds")

From GitHub

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("novica/shinyds")

Quick start

library(shiny)
library(bslib)
library(shinyds)

ui <- bslib::page_fluid(
  use_designsystemet(),
  ds_heading("Hello Designsystemet!", level = 1),
  ds_field(
    ds_label("Your name", `for` = "name"),
    ds_input("name", placeholder = "Enter your name")
  ),
  ds_button("Greet", inputId = "btn", variant = "primary"),
  uiOutput("greeting")
)

server <- function(input, output, session) {
  output$greeting <- renderUI({
    req(input$btn, input$name)
    ds_alert(paste("Hello,", input$name), variant = "success")
  })
}

shinyApp(ui, server)

use_designsystemet() must appear in the app's UI — it loads the CSS and JavaScript and activates the design token color scheme.

Demo

Old Faithful

Example apps

Three example apps are bundled with the package:

App	Description	Run
basic	Minimal contact form — button, text inputs, checkbox, reactive output	shiny::runApp(system.file("examples/basic", package = "shinyds"))
faithful	Old Faithful data explorer — tabs, sidebar, plot, table	shiny::runApp(system.file("examples/faithful", package = "shinyds"))
showcase	Full component reference with live reactive values	shiny::runApp(system.file("examples/showcase", package = "shinyds"))

What's included

shinyds covers the full Designsystemet component set: form controls (button, input, checkbox, radio, select, textarea, search, suggestion), layout (card, table, tabs, pagination), typography (heading, paragraph, link, list), and feedback (alert, badge, spinner, skeleton). Components compose naturally with bslib layout functions.

Learn more

• Getting Started — form controls, layout, typography, and updating inputs from the server: vignette("getting-started", package = "shinyds")
• Reactivity Patterns — wiring up Shiny reactivity for toggle group, details, dialog, popover, and fieldset: vignette("reactivity-patterns", package = "shinyds")
• Designsystemet documentation