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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 introduced Streamlit from a theoretical point of view and looked at several reasons that make this framework an incredible tool for creating web applications and prototypes quickly and easily. Turning an idea into a prototype – or even better, into a working web application – quickly, easily, and painlessly is a terrific weapon in our hands. The power of such a library can only be fully expressed by using it, so let’s not wait any longer and start setting up our coding environment!

To start coding, we still need some things: a good operating system with a Python installation, an integrated development environment (IDE), virtual environments, and more.

In the next chapter, we are going to ensure that everything we need will be available and fully functioning. Don’t worry – this installation will act as the foundation for all our future developments!