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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

How and when to use databases and advanced skills

In Chapter 13, when we talked about login and signup, we explained how to deal with databases in Streamlit, while in Chapters 14 and 15, we covered topics such as customized pages, multi-pages, themes, forms, subdomains, and Session State.

Now, it may sound trivial, but you should consider using databases in Streamlit when you need to store and manage data for your web application. Databases are useful when you want to do the following:

  • Persist data: Save information (such as user profiles, user-generated content, or application settings) so that it’s available even after closing the web app.
  • Access large amounts of data: Handle and retrieve a lot of data efficiently, such as records in a sales database or user comments on a website.
  • Collaborate: Share and update data across multiple users or devices. Databases help you keep information consistent and up to date.

When working with databases in Streamlit...