Sure, we built the prototype with Python, Django, and a web interface. The idea being a user could run it and then just browse to localhost:<some port> and use the web UI for it.

We quickly realized the app was going to be 99% Javascript anyway so using something like atom-shell started to make a lot of sense.

We originally were targeting just OSX and Linux desktops, but using atom-shell opens up a path to Windows desktops much more easily for us.

The app needs to display a large of amount of changing data from the local machine and atom-shell + ReactJS, so far, is handling it just fine.