Shiny Dashboard - display a dedicated “loading..” page until initial loading of the data is done

Question

I have initial loading of data from the DB in the server.R which takes a few seconds. Until this is done, the page displayed is distorted (wrong data in selecti

Answer 1

The code

hidden(
    div(
      id = "main_content",
      "Data loaded, content goes here"
    )

doesn't work with tabsetPanel. But if you move the id to the div level it works beautifully. Thanks to shinyjs author Dean Attali for this tip. https://stackoverflow.com/users/4432127/keshete

  hidden(
        div(id = "mainTabsetPanel",
          tabsetPanel(
....