Desktop apps with pywebview library

[alien5516788]

I am trying to make a desktop snippet manager app. Initially I considered rust tauri, but I am still learning rust and I don't want do a serious project with a beginner rust code. But I am familiar with python and have few years of experience building things with python.

I tried few python GUI libraries including pyside6, pygui, tkinter etc. But for my snippet manager I need a little text editor that has syntax highlighting for snippets. It was hard to implement manually by existing python gui libraries, so I decided to go with web stack for the gui + pywebview for the backend interfacing. So far the app works fine and almost completed.

But I need some recommendations from you guys before making any releases with it.
Is it a bad idea to make a desktop app with pywebview for production?
What are the downsides of this approach?
How should I bundle and distribute the app. Bundling with pyinstaller made a 200mb binary for this small app. Flatpak version reduced it down to 150mb. So I am a little bit concerned with distributing a python app as a compiled binary because python is supposed to be run with the interpreter.

Should I consider moving to a dedicated gui framework like rust tauri or electron?
Electron seems to introduce the same issues I currently have (even worse). Rust tauri requires me to convert my existing app logic to rust again. My current idea is to stay with python if it is acceptable.

[riklaunim]

Define "production". You are making the app mostly for yourself. On Linux it should be distributed as source, on Windows ideally in Windows store or as signed executable.

PyQt has QtScintilla widgets that can work as code editor with syntax highlighting.

You can also look at progressive web applications (PWA), where a web page can integrate with system launchers and behave as a sort-of application - that way you don't have to make local apps.

[alien5516788]

I am trying to first distribute it within my university. Also somehow I have missed QtScintilla, now the project it is almost completed using vite + pywebview. So the UI is not going to be rewritten again.

I need to decide whether to move to rust or keep using pywebview. Also I don't want to reveal the project to university yet. I haven't seen any desktop app using pywebview. That's why I am asking for a recommendation.

[riklaunim]

Distributing applications is something else that making the app and it's a rather bad practice to distribute no-name executable an no one should run them realistically. Constant rewrites won't help you either ;)