Idea: ability to browse into the app at its current state about shinytest

[gaborcsardi]

Definitely sg to think about. I also think that the snapshot feature can be useful for the tests, I am just not sure how. An initial idea:

• We inject the snapshot support into the app when starting it up in shinyapp$new(), every time.
• Add an app$browse() method that
  1. does the snapshotting in phantom.
  2. opens the app from the snapshot in an actual browser.

My only worry for this is that the snapshotting feature does not work for all apps. But there is not much we can do about that....

[daattali]

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking.

I think the way the statesaving feature currently works is that the enablebookmarking function makes some global variable set, so before injecting, we could check if that variable is already set or not. There's going to be some issues to think about, but I'm glad you're onboard, browse is going to be a very powerful tool. And it's ok if it doesn't work for ALL apps because it's a convenience feature, it's not a testing function

[daattali]

Closing as I already opened a newer issue for this