Advice? My boss wants me to stop making Shiny apps and instead hand off the front end to a software engineer.

I have quite a few Shiny apps deployed on my company’s cloud subscription. Heavy with tables, figures, some reactivity between the tables and figures. Loads data from a SQL database upon launch. It went pretty smoothly. I could make them in a few weeks and handle most of the user feature requests.

My boss now wants me to focus on the Data Science and hand off the app development to a software engineer. They would use React or some other JavaScript framework. The hope is greater project throughput and better maintainability of the app. React is more widely used than Shiny

Is this going to work?

I know a little JavaScript and it strikes me as incredibly painful and code-intensive to do anything like a join or make a plot of moderate complexity. I’m worried that the software engineer is going to choke on it. Maybe they don‘t even know how to make plots! I honestly don’t know what to expect. Any advice is appreciated.