It actually originally worked that way, and you can still mostly kinda use it that way (except that, because of CSRF protection, it's obnoxious -- run the program once to figure out the command line that the backend python process is started with, eg, via `ps -Fe` on linux, then shut down the app, then run that process. As long as you don't set the `ELECTRON_APP_SECRET` env var, CSRF will be disabled. Use `netstat -pant | grep -i listen` to figure out what port it is listening on)

Obviously not the most user friendly or usable, but we found that people often got pretty confused when this was a browser tab instead of a standalone app (it's easy to lose the tab, etc)