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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)
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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 deeply customized pages

Now, let’s move back to the code, taking care of the title and icon marked in red in Figure 14.3:

Figure 14.7: The set_page_config method

Figure 14.7: The set_page_config method

On line 3, immediately after import streamlit as st, we set the page configuration using the st.set_page_config method. In this way, we can customize the page title and icon (an emoji or even a PNG or an ICO file is supported), set the layout of the content in the main section (it can be wide or centered), and decide whether the sidebar is expanded or collapsed at start time.

The result, with the configuration reported in Figure 14.7, is as follows:

Figure 14.8: A customized page

Figure 14.8: A customized page

It is up to you to try different settings while using all the available parameters.

With the set_page_config method, we can do even more. In fact, by adding the few lines of code shown in Figure 14.9, we can modify the three points menu and the About section:

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