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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

Managing difficult libraries

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  1. Download the GitHub Desktop application from desktop.github.com and install it.
  2. Then, log into your GitHub account and authorize. You should see the following window:
Figure 11.7: GitHub Desktop application

Figure 11.7: GitHub Desktop application

  1. Now, select the covid19-book repository (if you used another name, you must look for it) and click Clone....

    A clone of the repository will be created on your machine, as shown in Figure 11.8:

Figure 11.8: Cloning the GitHub repository locally

Figure 11.8: Cloning the GitHub repository locally

  1. Once the cloning operation is finished, open the local folder of the repository on your Mac Finder or via Windows File Explorer, as shown in Figure 11.9:
Figure 11.9: Local folder of the repository

Figure 11.9: Local folder of the repository

  1. Now, create the...