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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)
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

Getting familiar with the Streamlit Share service

Now that we’ve covered the theory, let’s understand how to deploy our fresh NLP web application in a very easy and smooth way!

First of all, you will have to go to https://share.streamlit.io:

Figure 7.1: The Streamlit Share web page

Figure 7.1: The Streamlit Share web page

When you arrive on the page, you must sign in with your GitHub account, using the email (or username) and password you use for your GitHub account. This requires you to register for a GitHub account if you do not already have one (https://github.com).

Now, before signing in, I strongly suggest that you carefully read Streamlit’s official documentation about sharing apps since you can find very detailed information about how to share private and public apps:

Figure 7.2: Official “Share your app” documentation on Streamlit’s website

Figure 7.2: Official “Share your app” documentation on Streamlit’s website

Once you’ve logged in with your GitHub account, you will see...