title: Python3 / JS - How do I handle local file uploads with eel?
body: <p>I am currently working on a local Electron-like software with <a href="https://pypi.org/project/Eel/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Eel</a>.</p>
  
  <p>This software is intended to be bundled as a standalone Windows application that needs to run on the user's local machine.</p>
  
  <p>Within this software I want to be able to select and work on local files with at Python backend. To access the file, I use an HTML <code>&lt;form&gt;</code> with a <code>&lt;input type='file' /&gt;</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I'm wondering how I should handle the upload of local files within this framework as, unlike electron there is no <code>dialog.showOpenDialog()</code> function available in vanilla JavaScript.</p>
  
  <p>The <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35654730/how-do-i-handle-local-file-uploads-in-electron">following question</a> helps another user with Electron, but I'm searching for a workaround in vanilla ES6.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>