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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

IDE selection

Having a good IDE is very important for coding in Python. It provides many useful features that help you write code faster and with fewer errors, and keeps your code clean and well organized. For example, the autocomplete feature saves a lot of time by suggesting code completions as you type. This reduces typing errors. Syntax highlighting makes the code easier to read by coloring different elements. Powerful debugging tools in the IDE make debugging easier and faster. Refactoring features help keep the code organized and readable. Linting checks your code for stylistic issues, improving the quality.

On the market, there are several excellent tools such as PyCharm and VSCode, but these tools are usually heavy and a little bit expensive. For the sake of our coding sessions, we can use a quite light application that, at least at the beginning, can be installed and used at no cost: Sublime Text.

Sublime Text has many nice features that you can explore by yourself,...