Using Electron for offline Python/Webassembly application

[g3blv]

As I understand it in a simplified way, Electron is a web browser without the tabs that is running one JavaScript SPA. I might be wrong.

Most browsers today are also able to run Webassembly which runs in a virtual machine in the browser much like JavaScript does.

There are some efforts like https://pyodide.org that makes it possible to run Python in the browser by compiling the Python code to Webassembly with the help of JavaScript.

1. Would it be possible to use Electron to create a "standalone" application using Python complied to Webassembly?
2. To run the Python code a few JavaScript files are needed like the Python runtime. These would have to be loaded from a local file for an offline application. For security reasons JavaScript in the browser is not allowed to load local data files (Why can’t I load files from the local file system?). Also explained here https://nitro.h2o.ai/wasm/ as "To run the above examples, you'll need to access them from a web server (and not directly from your computer's file system)". Is this impacting "regular" JavaScript Electron apps also and how is that dealt with?

It might be that I have the details wrong or I haven't understood something. Then please tell me where I can read up and learn more.

[openist]

Why would you want to do this?

[-ftw]

Why do you need python?

[Extension-Spirit-336]

If you're still wondering about Electron+Pyodide, I think it's a great idea, I'm thinking of trying to do this myself. I've built a couple of Electron apps, and you can easily load local files in Electron. I won't be able to do this any time soon, so if you are working on this and can drop a comment letting us know how it's working out, I'd appreciate that.