You're reading from Web App Development Made Simple with Streamlit A web developer's guide to effortless web app development, deployment, and scalability

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835086315

Length 350 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Streamlit

Concepts

Web Programming

Author (1):

Rosario Moscato

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Started with Streamlit

2. Chapter 1: Getting to Know Streamlit – A Brief Overview FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up the Python Coding Environment

4. Chapter 3: Exploring Streamlit’s Features and Functionality

5. Part 2: Building a Basic Web App for Essential Streamlit Skills

6. Chapter 4: Streamlit Essentials – Configuring the Environment, Managing Packages, and More

7. Chapter 5: Organizing and Displaying Content with Columns, Expanders, and NLP Techniques

8. Chapter 6: Implementing NLP Techniques for Text Analysis and Processing in Streamlit

9. Chapter 7: Sharing and Deploying Your Apps on the Cloud Using Streamlit Share

10. Part 3: Developing Advanced Skills with a Covid-19 Detection Tool

11. Chapter 8: Advanced Environment Setup and Package Management for Building an AI-Powered Web App

12. Chapter 9: Optimizing Streamlit Web App UX with Customization and UI Features

13. Chapter 10: Utilizing Pretrained Models to Create Specialized and Personalized Web Applications

14. Chapter 11: Deploying and Managing Complex Libraries on Streamlit Share

15. Part 4: Advanced Techniques for Secure and Customizable Web Applications

16. Chapter 12: Smart File Uploading – Advanced Techniques for Professional Web Applications

17. Chapter 13: Creating a Secure Login and Signup Process for Web Applications

18. Chapter 14: Customizing Pages, Personalizing Themes, and Implementing Multi-Pages

19. Chapter 15: Enhancing Web Apps with Forms, Session State, and Customizable Subdomains

20. Chapter 16: Takeaways and Conclusion

21. Index

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Summary

In this chapter, we began from scratch. First of all, we prepared our pipenv environment, installed all packages needed for the web application, and finally created an empty Python file.

After that, we built up a skeleton that can be reused any time we want to develop a new web application. This skeleton is made up of an initial part where we import all the packages we need and a main function that is dedicated to containing all the business logic of our web app.

In the first part of the main function, some features must be applied to the entire web application, such as its title and subtitle, which we created with very beautiful and colorful HTML, and the web browser’s panel icon and title.

In the second part of the main function, we created a menu that will be shown on the left-hand side of our web application and that lets the user choose from the various tasks our web application can perform. Upon selecting one of the tasks in the menu, the web application...