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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

Building the app skeleton

At this point, we should be quite expert at building the application’s skeleton, since we did a very good job with the NLP web app developed previously. In fact, if you recall, we first defined and built up a simple skeleton containing just a menu with all the functions supposed to be present in the web application and only in a second moment, we implemented those functions one by one. Now we are going to adopt the same approach.

Before building up the skeleton for the COVID app, let us just add a couple of other decorations to our app – for example, some text just below the title and an image in the sidebar.

The code with the two new lines of code is shown in the following figure:

Figure 8.7: Text below the title and sidebar creation

Figure 8.7: Text below the title and sidebar creation

As we already know, the code in the third line is responsible for the web application configuration, setting the page title (Covid-19 Detection Tool), page icon (covid19.jpeg...