You do not need to know JavaScript to follow along.
There are two ways to follow along this workshop; from your local machine or from the remote RStudio Cloud projects.
Required:
install.packages(c("devtools", "htmlwidgets"))
git clone https://github.com/JohnCoene/how-to-build-htmlwidgets.git
You can use the RStudio Cloud project in the event that you cannot work on your local machine.