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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

Customizing Pages, Personalizing Themes, and Implementing Multi-Pages

Streamlit recently added many advanced features to make customizing our apps easier and more accurate. Now, it’s possible to configure our pages so that we can hide the burger menu or the footer, for example. It’s possible to change many standard links and deeply personalize themes, colors, and styles. Finally, it’s possible to deal with multi-pages natively, naming and configuring folders in a very specific way.

All these new features are a very powerful way to deeply customize our web applications, making their look and behavior exactly the way we imagined during the design stage of the project.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding new features related to deep customization
  • Creating deeply customized pages
  • Understanding theming and .toml files
  • Exploring the multi-pages feature