diff --git a/packages/kernel/py/stlite-server/poetry.lock b/packages/kernel/py/stlite-server/poetry.lock
index 3277e1c6c..df3f53bb1 100644
--- a/packages/kernel/py/stlite-server/poetry.lock
+++ b/packages/kernel/py/stlite-server/poetry.lock
@@ -1126,6 +1126,17 @@ files = [
 [package.extras]
 windows-terminal = ["colorama (>=0.4.6)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pyodide-py"
+version = "0.26.1"
+description = "A Python package providing core interpreter functionality for Pyodide"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.12"
+files = [
+    {file = "pyodide_py-0.26.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:7b7a1be1c1faa5bfc642cf4bf6a8497793e5aa874f7fa8b53d1840c92dc2a13e"},
+    {file = "pyodide_py-0.26.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:02f2e20f8babe016920e43d63dbae6e253954362d02de9059eb48fe669f017a6"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pyparsing"
 version = "3.1.2"
@@ -1613,4 +1624,4 @@ watchmedo = ["PyYAML (>=3.10)"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.12"
-content-hash = "af05719fc03dd79cf7aea92ff35d93670eccc83ed19063b254a43dc772b2248b"
+content-hash = "550f036d16912d4223d6c0b634544924dadbf7587840ce5e556b7ded90d6e25c"
diff --git a/packages/kernel/py/stlite-server/pyproject.toml b/packages/kernel/py/stlite-server/pyproject.toml
index 310d62d59..802eaabfd 100644
--- a/packages/kernel/py/stlite-server/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/kernel/py/stlite-server/pyproject.toml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ streamlit-aggrid = "^1.0.5"
 pandas-stubs = "^2.2.2.240603"
 matplotlib = "^3.9.0"
 ruff = "^0.5.2"
+pyodide-py = "^0.26.1"
 
 [build-system]
 requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ module = ["streamlit", "streamlit.*", "tests.*"]
 ignore_errors = true
 
 [[tool.mypy.overrides]]
-module = ["pyodide", "pyodide.*", "matplotlib", "st_aggrid"]
+module = ["st_aggrid"]
 ignore_missing_imports = true
 
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
diff --git a/packages/kernel/py/stlite-server/stlite_server/server.py b/packages/kernel/py/stlite-server/stlite_server/server.py
index d4d2dfd54..4d62fc899 100644
--- a/packages/kernel/py/stlite-server/stlite_server/server.py
+++ b/packages/kernel/py/stlite-server/stlite_server/server.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import urllib.parse
 from typing import Callable, Final, cast
 
-import pyodide
+import pyodide.ffi
 from streamlit.proto.BackMsg_pb2 import BackMsg
 from streamlit.proto.ForwardMsg_pb2 import ForwardMsg
 from streamlit.runtime import Runtime, RuntimeConfig, SessionClient
@@ -102,7 +102,10 @@ def start_websocket(self, path: str, on_message):
             raise RuntimeError("Invalid WebSocket endpoint")
         self._websocket_handler.open(on_message)
 
-    def receive_websocket_from_js(self, payload_from_js: pyodide.ffi.JsProxy):
+    def receive_websocket_from_js(
+        self,
+        payload_from_js: pyodide.ffi.JsBuffer,  # Unit8Array value is passed from JS
+    ):
         payload = payload_from_js.to_bytes()
 
         if not isinstance(payload, bytes):
@@ -120,14 +123,16 @@ def receive_http_from_js(
         self,
         method: str,
         path: str,
-        headers: pyodide.ffi.JsProxy,
-        body: str | pyodide.ffi.JsProxy,
+        headers_proxy: pyodide.ffi.JsProxy,  # object is passed from JS
+        body_proxy: str
+        | pyodide.ffi.JsBuffer,  # string or ArrayBuffer value is passed from JS
         on_response: Callable[[int, dict, bytes], None],
     ):
-        headers = headers.to_py()
+        headers: dict = headers_proxy.to_py()
 
-        if isinstance(body, pyodide.ffi.JsProxy):
-            body = body.to_bytes()
+        body: str | bytes = (
+            body_proxy if isinstance(body_proxy, str) else body_proxy.to_bytes()
+        )
 
         return self.receive_http(
             method=method,
@@ -153,11 +158,10 @@ def receive_http(
         # Find the handler for the path and method.
         handler = None
         for path_regex, handler_candidate in self._routes:
-            match = path_regex.match(path)
-            if match:
+            if match := path_regex.match(path):
                 handler = handler_candidate
                 break
-        if handler is None:
+        else:
             on_response(404, {}, b"No handler found")
             return
         method_name = method.lower()