How can we access a user's K8s cluster using kubectl commands via an Electron app?

Question

We're building a simple app that scans a user's K8s cluster via <kubectl get all -o json> then compares that data against a json file detailing all K8s API deprecations and replacements from KubePug.

What We Have:

• A ‘test’ user react app spun up into a K8s cluster
• A JS file that (shown below):
  • Uses Node’s ‘child_process’ to run the <kubectl get all -o json> in the terminal
  • Parse the response JSON and grab the necessary object data from the cluster (apiVersion, kind, name, namespace, etc.)

Desired User Experience:

1. Navigate to workdir
2. Open our app just like you would vsCode <code .>
3. GUI automatically opens that indicates the version/deprecation status of all active APIs in your cluster + other information, links, dependency trees, etc.

Technical Flow:

1. User navigates to application workdir
2. User executes <kdt .> in their workdir (kdt being our app name)
3. Our app starts running
4. Our app grabs the users workdir where they executed <kdt .>
5. Our app uses the code we already have to execute the <kubectl get all -o json> command inside of the user’s workdir
6. Our app performs business logic on the data
7. Our app renders data either in a localhost or desktop app GUI

Current Roadblock: It’s apparent that this needs to be either an Electron app or an NPM package that a client runs locally. The NPM package approach seems light-weight and more developer-friendly. The Electron approach seems more feasible given our existing skill set but less developer-friendly.

Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

P.S. Our React app is spun up into a K8s cluster running 3 client pods, 3 server pods, 1 worker pod, 1 postgres pod, and 1 redis pod through ingress-nginx.

Our JS file works, we just need to be able to run this in a client's terminal now.

const childProcess = require('child_process');

async function sh(cmd_to_execute) {
    return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
        childProcess.exec(cmd_to_execute, (err, stdout, stderr) => {
            if (err) {
                reject(err);
            } else {
                const data = JSON.parse(stdout);
                const objects = data.items;
                objects.forEach((object) => {
                    console.log('****************************************')
                    console.log("Name: ", object.metadata.name);
                    console.log("Kind: ", object.kind);
                    console.log("apiVersion: ", object.apiVersion);
                })
                resolve({ stdout, stderr });
            }
        });
    });
}