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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)
Free Chapter
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

Takeaways and Conclusion

Together, we’ve traveled quite a long road. Starting from learning how to create a working environment, we went through the basics of Streamlit usage. After that, we became more advanced users, and we learned a very professional way of creating web applications.

Moreover, we saw how to deploy and publish our creations on the cloud. From a wide perspective, we also acquired some very useful skills related to automatic file detection and upload, database connection, login and sign-up page creation and account management, theming, Session State, forms, and subdomains—a very long journey!

There are also a lot of takeaways, and these can make web application creation easier in the future:

  • Skills for creating a very cheap (free) and effective development environment
  • A web app skeleton working template with menus and decorations
  • Skills for deploying and uploading web apps on the cloud
  • A useful know-how (with working skeleton...