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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

Summary

In this chapter, we prepared the ground for our next activities. We learned how to create a developing environment while keeping costs very low (almost free). So, we decided to use Ubuntu as our main OS. After that, we made sure to have Python already available and installed pip. The selection of the IDE was quite straightforward since we chose Sublime Text, a quite light, powerful, and advanced text editor.

After that, we focused on Python’s virtual environment. In this case, our choice was pipenv because it is quite powerful, easy to use, and full of advanced features. We spent some time on a quite complete overview of this tool and its main features and instructions.

Now, everything is ready, so finally, in the next chapter, we are going to take a kind of crash course on the basic features of Streamlit. Are you ready?