Book Image

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

Smart File Uploading – Advanced Techniques for Professional Web Applications

At this point of our journey, we have almost acquired all the skills we need to implement and deploy well-working and nice-looking web applications. Anyway, our web apps still have a quite “naive” aspect and are a little bit far from professional ones. Starting with this chapter, we will deal with some advanced techniques that will help make our products look more complete and professional.

Let’s start with the file uploader, a widget that we already used in the Covid-19 Detection Tool app when we were asked to upload an X-ray image of the chest.

What we want to do now is move the file uploader to another level, deeply customizing it to automatically detect the type of file we are going to open and adopt the appropriate actions. This kind of behavior gives our web applications a very professional standing and makes them easy to use.

In this chapter, we’re going to...