ChrisKnott/EelArchived
Eel
Eel is a framework for creating desktop applications using a Python backend and a web-based frontend. It acts as a bidirectional bridge between Python and JavaScript, allowing developers to build graphical user interfaces with HTML and JavaScript that communicate with local system logic.
The project facilitates two-way communication by enabling the exposure of Python functions to the browser and allowing the backend to trigger JavaScript functions. It uses a local server to render web interfaces as standalone desktop windows and provides tools to bundle the Python code and web assets into a single standalone binary executable for distribution.
The framework covers application window management, desktop interface rendering, and data exchange using both synchronous and asynchronous communication patterns.
Features
- Browser-Based Desktop UIs - Uses a web browser as the primary rendering engine for a standalone desktop application interface.
- Standalone Binary Packaging - Bundles the Python interpreter and application source into a single standalone executable binary.
- Python Application Packagers - Packages Python code and web assets into a single standalone native executable binary.
- Language Runtime Bridges - Establishes a two-way bridge to call Python functions from JavaScript and vice versa.
- Local HTTP Servers - Includes a built-in local HTTP server to serve frontend web assets to the browser window.
- Cross-Language Bridges - Provides a bidirectional bridge allowing Python and JavaScript to call each other's functions.
- Host Function Exposure - Exposes Python functions to the browser, enabling the frontend to execute backend logic.
- JavaScript Function Invocations - Allows the Python backend to trigger JavaScript functions to update the user interface.
- Python-JavaScript Bridges - Implements a bidirectional communication layer for mapping function calls between Python and JavaScript.
- Backend GUIs - Creates web-based graphical user interfaces that communicate with a local Python backend.
- Web-Based Interfaces - Enables the creation of desktop user interfaces using web technologies connected to a Python backend.
- Python GUI Frameworks - Framework for creating desktop applications combining a Python backend with an HTML/JS frontend.
- Backend-Frontend Bridges - Uses a persistent WebSocket connection as the communication layer between Python and JavaScript.
- Desktop Development - Provides a framework for building desktop applications using Python logic and web-based UIs.
- Local Web App Hosting - Hosts a local server to serve web assets and render them within a standalone desktop window.
- Asynchronous Callbacks - Supports passing callback functions to handle cross-process return values without blocking execution.
- Synchronous Request-Response - Enables retrieving values from another process by pausing execution until the result is received.
- Standalone Application Packaging - Bundles web frontends and Python backends into single-file binaries to remove runtime dependencies.
- GUI Frameworks - Library for building offline HTML/JS desktop apps.
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