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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

Setting Up the Python Coding Environment

Before we start coding with Streamlit, we need to prepare our environment. Setting up a Python coding environment, especially in Linux (for example, Ubuntu), can be done in a few simple steps: update (or install) Python, install a code editor or IDE (maybe something free, such as Sublime Text), set up a virtual environment (in the book, we are using pipenv, but any other would be good), and install dependencies. After these steps, we should have a fully functional Python coding environment (in Ubuntu or any other operating system (OS)) that’s ready to use for our web application’s development.

This chapter is all about the environment setup. We need to prepare all the tools needed to make our developments with Streamlit smooth and productive. So, first of all, we are dealing with the choice of OS, which can be real or virtual, and either Windows, macOS, or Linux (our preferred solution). Next, we have to decide what kind of...