This adds another layer of potential security flaws. Other applications might try to connect to that daemon via network and exploit it. In turn you have to do a

This adds another layer of potential security flaws. Other applications might try to connect to that daemon via network and exploit it. In turn you have to do all the security things in it, treating your frontend as potentially malicious. In an electron app you have secure communication channels. (Still have to be careful on data by the user, but all you get in the backend from the frontend is from your code)