python-eel/Eel
A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 28
- Release rhythm 16
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 106.5
- age_days: 3171
- days_rel: 437
- days_push: 437
- n_releases_24m: 3
Adoption not part of the score
6736 stars · 601 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Eel is a lightweight Python library for building simple Electron-like desktop GUI apps with HTML/JS frontends while retaining full access to Python capabilities and libraries. It hosts a local web server and lets you annotate Python functions so they can be called from JavaScript and vice versa.
Use cases
- build a desktop GUI app in Python with an HTML/JS frontend
- make a simple Electron-like app using Python
- call Python functions from JavaScript in a desktop app
- turn a Python script into a GUI application
- lightweight alternative to Electron or cefpython for small apps
- create an offline HTML GUI with access to Python libraries like file system access
- wrap an internal team utility script in a web-based UI
When to choose
- You know Python plus basic web development and need a quick GUI for a small utility or internal tool
- You want easy bidirectional Python/JS interop without writing boilerplate client-server code
- Your app benefits from Python's ecosystem (e.g., math, data, or file access) behind a friendly HTML/JS interface
- You plan to distribute the app as a binary via PyInstaller
When to avoid
- You need a fully-fledged production desktop application on the scale of Electron apps like Atom
- You require a well-maintained dependency - the maintainers state the project is effectively unmaintained with no plans to change
- Security is critical - the README explicitly warns to consider how you will secure anything built with it
- You need packaged native widgets or support for browsers/engines beyond Chrome/Chromium/Edge
Facets
library · maturity abandoned
gui desktop-framework http-server desktop-applications web-development cross-platform developer-tools python cross-platform electron-alternative python-javascript-interop html-gui chromium-app-mode js-python-bridge pyinstaller-packaging lightweight-gui local-webserver desktop
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/python-eel/Eel · fetched 2026-08-28 · f1eef2de2238
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/eel/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · f295cfe55e27
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| python-eel/Eel | main | 10 |
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