Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

shinyhealth (development version)

New Features

• add_healthcheck() registers healthcheck endpoints on any Shiny app object by decorating its internal HTTP handler – no uiPattern changes, no plumber sidecar, no second port. Registrations stack for separate liveness/readiness endpoints, handler errors are converted into machine-readable 503 responses, and verbose (default: shiny::in_devmode()) logs probe hits to the console.
• health_response() creates health_response objects (classed shiny::httpResponse()s) with best practice defaults: application/health+json content type, Cache-Control: no-store, RFC 3339 UTC timestamps, and independent body status / HTTP status_code semantics. Includes the full S3 triad (new_health_response(), validate_health_response(), is_health_response()), coercion via as_health_response(), and cli-formatted print()/format()/str() methods.
• health_handler_default() documents and implements the healthcheck handler contract: any function(req) returning a health_response, a shiny::httpResponse, or a named list.
• has_healthcheck() and healthcheck_paths() introspect registered endpoints; print() on a decorated app announces its endpoints before launching.
• ts_utc() formats RFC 3339 / ISO 8601 UTC timestamps.
• A runnable example app ships under inst/shiny/hello.

Testing

• Three-tier test suite: pure unit tests, app-object introspection tests, and live wire tests against a real running app (non-blocking shiny::startApp() with promise-based requests), including a cross-process probe test matching real orchestrator behavior.