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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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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

Streamlit Essentials – Configuring the Environment, Managing Packages, and More

This chapter covers the basics of building a Python web application using the Streamlit framework. It is designed for beginners who want to learn how to develop a web application from scratch and covers several important topics, including setting up a virtual environment, installing and managing packages, creating an app skeleton, and adding a menu and decoration to the app.

This chapter is the first of a section consisting of four more chapters. In these chapters, we will learn how to build basic web applications while developing essential Streamlit skills. We are adopting a learning-by-doing approach, so we are going to build, test, and deploy a real working web app – a natural language processing (NLP) app – from scratch. So, let’s make it!

This chapter starts by recalling the concept of virtual environments and explains why they are important for Python development...