python-app-with-electron-gui

A better way to make GUIs for your Python apps

Use HTML, JavaScript and CSS to make highly customized, cross platfrom desktop apps which use native Python backends.

https://youtu.be/627VBkAhKTc

Note: This is for educational purposes only, this may not be efficient or bug-free. Also, this is just a demo on how JS and Python can be used to interact together. This demo is NOT meant to show face detection or object detection.

General Dependenices

• Python
• NodeJS
• electron.js
• python-shell

Specific Dependencies

• weather module:

  • requests
  • beautifulsoup4

• object detection module

  • Flask
  • tensorflow
  • keras

  Usage

  • Clone the repo, and then

  $ cd electron-app-with-python-gui
  $ pip install -r requirements.txt
  $ npm install
  $ npm start

  • If you want to use the object detection module, make sure the flask server [object_detection.py] is up and running before starting the GUI.

  $ cd engine
  $ python object_detection.py

Note:

weather_engine.py uses web-scraping to pull data off the internet, from a particular website. If this site happens to be modified or changed in the future, the code might break. However, this can be fixed by analyzing the new layout of the site and adjusting the python code accordingly.