Python: Creating desktop application with HTML GUI [closed]

Question

This question is more about methodology.

I want to create a Python desktop application, but I don't want its GUI to be like tkinter or like PyQt. I prefer to have a beautiful and modern client GUI like Bootstrap.

Is there any existing API for creating such applications in Python?

If not: does it sound a sane workround to use some Python server (like Django or like web2py), and to start a new server each time the application is launched by a user, just for enabling the application core to be in Python and the client to be in HTML? Does anyone work this way?

Answer 1

Use PyQt or PySide 2, Qt WebEngine and Qt's builtin support for hosting HTML applications:

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebchannel-index.html

The general architecture is a SPA (Single Page Application) running from local HTML and Javascript content bundled with your app – no need for bundling in a web server.

For anything complicated (like bypassing cross origin issues), use the Qt WebChannel to message to functionality built on the Python side.

This is basically the same architecture that Cordova uses.

Now, whether you should build an application this way (cough QML cough) is a completely different topic.