I'd like to make a desktop app that would benefit from React's front-end offerings. Thus I think electron would be nice to support such javascript capabilities, in an embedded browser. For a backend, let's just arbitrarily choose something like Django for now.

The problem is that I'd like for this app to manipulate the file system, with terminal-like features. This is where to me it seems weird to use a website stack. Is it possible to do this? If not, are there non-web, desktop-app frameworks that can support javascript that would work for my case?