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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

Creating a Secure Login and Signup Process for Web Applications

Let’s continue our exploration of advanced techniques to make our web applications look professional and work well.

In this chapter, we are going to learn how to implement a login and signup page made with Secure Hash Algorithm 256 (SHA-256) encryption and connected to a database in a secure and user-friendly way. By adopting this approach, we will be able to authenticate our web app users and store their credentials permanently. The login and signup page typically consists of a form where users can enter their username and password to access the web application. When a user logs in, their credentials are hashed using SHA-256 and compared to the stored hash in the database (in this context, we are using SQLite3). If the hashes match, the user is authenticated and granted access to the application. The signup page allows new users to create an account by entering their desired username and password.

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