After developing a Python CLI app, I realized that it's time for it to have an Electron frontend.
How can the Electron app communicate with the Python app in response to a user action on the UI?
Update: Is it typical for the Python CLI app to be converted into a long-running server using like asyncio, and is Kafka for IPC an overkill?
It depends, but in general it should be possible to use the existing CLI for IPC. You can spawn the CLI app as a subprocess from Electron and communicate with it through standard text streams. Of course, this method is simplistic and works properly only if GUI "owns" a CLI instance and CLI does't need to live longer than the GUI. Also, things become more complicated if either app must be a singleton (e.g. a second GUI instance must connect to the same one CLI instance). In such cases, a server makes sense.
Communication between Electron Frontend and Python Backend