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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

Summary

In this chapter, we began from scratch. First of all, we prepared our pipenv environment, installed all packages needed for the web application, and finally created an empty Python file.

After that, we built up a skeleton that can be reused any time we want to develop a new web application. This skeleton is made up of an initial part where we import all the packages we need and a main function that is dedicated to containing all the business logic of our web app.

In the first part of the main function, some features must be applied to the entire web application, such as its title and subtitle, which we created with very beautiful and colorful HTML, and the web browser’s panel icon and title.

In the second part of the main function, we created a menu that will be shown on the left-hand side of our web application and that lets the user choose from the various tasks our web application can perform. Upon selecting one of the tasks in the menu, the web application...