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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

Recap of our first web application

It’s incredible, but we really did it! Starting from scratch, from an empty file, we created a well-working web application that performs a lot of tasks and provides us with very nice outputs.

First of all, we created a Python environment, and then we installed all the required libraries in it. After that, we started building the skeleton of our application. This point is very important because this skeleton, consisting of a menu that contains all the main features of our web application and various parts of code to manage these features, is something that we can reuse any time we want to create a new application.

The code of the application was created using basic widgets in Streamlit, that is, titles, subheaders, buttons, text areas, warnings, info, and so on, as well as some very interesting components, such as columns and expanders.

We also learned how to add some basic HTML in our web applications, as well as some basic Markdown...