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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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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

Organizing and Displaying Content with Columns, Expanders, and NLP Techniques

In this chapter, we will develop all the business logic required for the skeleton app we implemented in Chapter 4. We are going to learn about some extremely important features of Streamlit.

Columns and expanders are two layout features in the Streamlit framework that allow for more flexible and organized display of content in a web application.

Columns allow for dividing the screen horizontally into multiple sections, each with its own content. This is useful for displaying multiple visualizations or data tables side by side, or for separating different parts of the app’s interface. Expanders, on the other hand, allow for collapsing and expanding sections of content within a column. This is useful for hiding less important or less frequently used parts of the app’s interface, and allowing users to expand them only when needed.

In NLP, tokens are individual text units segmented by white...