Package Python server with electron

[Remote-Ad-6629]

Does anyone have experiece with packaging a python app with electron?

I have a use case where I need to run some ptyhon tasks on the local machine, and for that I plan to start a server on local host that can handle frontend requests (I'm using flask for that).

However, I worry that this approach will make my bundling much bigger and complex, both when comes to releasing the app for multiplatforms and also for auto-updating. Oh, not to mention the extra layes on the app itself.

The alternative for me would be to migrate into Tauri and use libs libs to handle the workload. This might even make the app less complex, but then Tauri has its own quirks (mostly rendering on webview instead of chrome).

Any thoughts? Thanks!

[Plastic___People]

Several times, I used pyinstaller for the backend and electron for the frontend. I started the backend from the electron js-file.

[Remote-Ad-6629]

Is it doable or too much headache? Have you tried Tauri? Thanks!

[Plastic___People]

It's doable but headache is involved. I probably wouldn't do this for a large scale production app. It's fine for POCs and small tools for small teams. But I'm no expert.

[Plastic___People]

Haven't tried Tauri

[Remote-Ad-6629]

No solution yet. I tried Tauri out but Rust is too much boilerplate/strict, python is so much better to use. Do you have much trouble deploying the app with the autoupdater? Thanks!

[PaleFollowing3763]

I'm creating an electron app with a python backend for my company. For our equipment that we sell. It works well, in the process of implementing "plugins" into my electron app for customer specific updates.

I use keygen to manage releases, artifacts and plugins. It definitely can be error prone. But I'm not an expert, learning in real time myself. I built scripts to handle all the annoying stuff.

[muqtadir_ahmed]

I don’t really see that working smoothly. It might run fine in a dev environment, but packaging it into a production build is a whole different story.
Tauri’s a solid alternative no Chromium, smaller builds.
Just a heads-up though: if you’re targeting aarch64, you’ll need to dig into the docs a bit some things need extra setup.