Can I use Electron without node.js

Question

Im new to Javascript so I would like to keep it at the bare minimum. Is there a way that I can use the Electron to communicate with python script without having node.js? My app is just a basic app that takes some input from users from a html page and I need this text input to be processed in python and write an excel file. So there is not much happening in html so is there a simple way to transfer the input to python file? I want to use Electron because I need this html to be my UI and also I need to distribute this app.

Answer 1

I guess the answer is "no": the main process running node will always be there.

An Electron app consists of a JavaScript main process, and one or more JavaScript renderer processes. There is no built-in Python support. And the user will need Python already installed. So, it sounds like a poor fit for what you need.

The answers here may be useful, and will show how to call the python script. I took a quick look at the flexx toolkit mentioned there. It seems to work with the user's browser, rather than producing a single executable.