I mean you are basically just describing a standard local development setup, so in a lot of ways this is trivial. The trouble would be trying to package that up

I mean you are basically just describing a standard local development setup, so in a lot of ways this is trivial. The trouble would be trying to package that up in user-friendly manner. It's definitely more work than it's worth, in a world where most people have computing resources to spare on a heavy framework like Electron.