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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)
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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

Understanding theming and .toml files

At the beginning of this chapter, in the Understanding new features related to deep customization section, we learned how to change the theme of our web apps directly from the browser. Streamlit has supported natively custom theming since version 0.79.0, which means that we can customize our theme directly from the backend without working in the browser.

We’ve already seen that there is a hidden directory named .streamlit and that inside this directory, there is a file named config.toml.

If we want to customize the theme, first of all, we must open this config.toml file, then add the following instructions to it:

Figure 14.14: Theme configuration with the config.toml file

Figure 14.14: Theme configuration with the config.toml file

The configuration in Figure 14.14 is the classical light theme. If you want to have a completely different effect, you can use your preferred color codes and choose a font between Sans-serif, Serif, or Monospace. To get a quick indication...