I remember having used an option setting that enable to print in the R console the messages between the server and ui while a shiny app is running. This option is really use
R Studio lists a nice summary of R Shiny global options available here
You may wish to turn both of these on: options(shiny.trace=TRUE) options(shiny.fullstacktrace=TRUE)
options(shiny.trace=TRUE) options(shiny.fullstacktrace=TRUE)