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Web App Development Made Simple with Streamlit

By : Rosario Moscato
Book Image

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

Hiding and showing parts depending on importance

From a very broad point of view, an application is just a way to visualize, transform, and save information. Not always showing all the available information at the same time is a winning idea. For example, having all the information on a unique screen could make our app very crowded. In other cases, we are not interested in visualizing all the information simultaneously because we want to see only a specific piece of information that is of our interest. So, hiding and properly showing information in our web application is a very valuable skill to acquire.

Adding columns, expanders, and a textbox

Columns are very useful because they allow us to create some layers or different parts. This means that by using columns, we can divide the screen into as many vertical sections as we want and use these sections (or columns) for any kind of specific purpose we think should be in a specific – or let’s say dedicated –...