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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

What is a virtual environment?

Virtual environments are useful tools in Python development that allow you to isolate package installations related to a specific project from the main system’s Python installation. This means you can have separate environments with different package dependencies for different projects.

Creating a virtual environment is easy using the venv module in the Python standard library. The basic steps are as follows:

  1. Create the virtual environment by running the following command:
    python3 -m venv venv

    This will create a venv folder that contains the isolated environment.

  2. Activate the virtual environment.

    On Unix/Linux systems, run the following command:

    source venv/bin/activate

    On Windows, run the following command:

    venv\Scripts\activate

    Your command prompt will now show the virtual environment name enclosed in parentheses. Any package installations will now be isolated in this environment.

  3. You can install any packages needed for your project...