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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)
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

Avoiding bad behavior

Bad behavior is any kind of missing, wrong, or incomplete action that produces a runtime problem during the deployment, where the result is the deployment task failing. For this reason, in this section, we will learn about the steps that are required to complete any deployment.

Creating a list of all the packages that were installed and used to develop the Python code

The first thing we need to run our web application is the list of all the packages that were installed and used to develop the Python code. As we know, there are several ways to get this list, but the easiest one is to use pipreqs. Let’s take a look:

  1. First of all, let’s install pipreqs by typing the following command in the Terminal:
    pipenv install pipreqs (simply "pip install pipreqs" if you are not using pipenv)
  2. Then, we can create the requirements.txt file with the following simple instruction:
    pipreqs ./covid

    Here, covid is the name of the directory containing...