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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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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 covered some topics that can really increase the level of our web applications.

First of all, we saw what forms are and how to use them, discovering that having independent groups of widgets inside our web apps can make a big difference. All we need to do is define these forms and include some widgets inside them, using a button to trigger the widgets. Even the button is customizable since it can be included in the form or placed outside it.

Further, we learned that Session State is an incredibly powerful weapon in our hands. At last, we can persist the values of our variables, and this opens up an incredible scenario of use cases to us. Moreover, thanks to callbacks, we can decide what to do when a user interacts with our widgets, calling back fully customized functions that completely match our needs.

Finally, by customizing the subdomains of our deployed web applications, we achieved two targets: we made them much easier to remember and we gave...