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Web App Development Made Simple with Streamlit

By : Rosario Moscato
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Web App Development Made Simple with Streamlit

By: Rosario Moscato

Overview of this book

This book is a comprehensive guide to the Streamlit open-source Python library and simplifying the process of creating web applications. Through hands-on guidance and realistic examples, you’ll progress from crafting simple to sophisticated web applications from scratch. This book covers everything from understanding Streamlit's central principles, modules, basic features, and widgets to advanced skills such as dealing with databases, hashes, sessions, and multipages. Starting with fundamental concepts like operation systems virtualization, IDEs, development environments, widgets, scripting, and the anatomy of web apps, the initial chapters set the groundwork. You’ll then apply this knowledge to develop some real web apps, gradually advancing to more complex apps, incorporating features like natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, dashboards with interactive charts, file uploading, and much more. The book concludes by delving into the implementation of advanced skills and deployment techniques. By the end of this book, you’ll have transformed into a proficient developer, equipped with advanced skills for handling databases, implementing secure login processes, managing session states, creating multipage applications, and seamlessly deploying them on the cloud.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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1
Part 1: Getting Started with Streamlit
5
Part 2: Building a Basic Web App for Essential Streamlit Skills
10
Part 3: Developing Advanced Skills with a Covid-19 Detection Tool
15
Part 4: Advanced Techniques for Secure and Customizable Web Applications

Summary

In this chapter, we consolidated our knowledge about virtual environments and package installation. After that, as usual, we started from an empty file and developed the skeleton of our app.

First, we imported all the libraries and created a main function. We also created some nice decorations such as a title in html, a beautiful icon, and a very interesting image in the sidebar. We also discovered how to upload files by filtering their types and, once imported, we learned how to visualize those images thanks to the Pillow library.

Another important step was to build up the menu of our app with all its voices and, at the end, we created a button showing all the information about the author, with some linkable elements, such as their website and email address.

Starting from the next chapter, we will focus on developing the three voices of the menu, which,, at the moment, are just empty containers: Image Enhance, Diagnosis, and Disclaimer and Info.