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Launchpad Prince Jain

dev-server developer-tools electron process-manager tray-app
Use this command to install Launchpad:
winget install --id=PrinceJain.Launchpad -e

Launchpad is an Electron tray application designed to streamline the management of local development servers. It allows developers to launch, monitor, and control various services such as Vite, FastAPI, Streamlit, and more from a single system tray icon on macOS or Windows.

Key Features:

  • Dark/Light Themes: Adapts to your system's theme for a seamless experience.
  • Live Log Viewer: Provides real-time logs with color-coding, search, and auto-scroll functionality.
  • Process Metrics: Displays CPU and memory usage for each running service.
  • Drag-and-Drop Reordering: Easily reorganize services within the interface.
  • Grouped Multi-Service Apps: Manage complex projects with multiple components as a single unit.
  • Auto-Start Functionality: Launch critical applications automatically at startup.
  • Global Shortcuts: Accessible via keyboard shortcuts for quick toggling (Cmd+Shift+L on macOS, Ctrl+Shift+L on Windows).
  • Port Detection: Automatically identifies available ports and displays running URLs.

Audience & Benefits: Ideal for developers managing multiple services simultaneously, Launchpad offers a unified interface to simplify workflow. It reduces the need for juggling terminal tabs by providing a central hub for monitoring and controlling development servers. The app supports a wide range of technologies including Vite, Streamlit, FastAPI, Astro, Next.js, and more, each represented with a color-coded badge for easy identification.

Launchpad can be installed via winget, making it accessible and straightforward to set up on compatible systems.

README

Launchpad

A menu bar / system tray app for launching, managing, and monitoring your local development servers from a single icon -on macOS and Windows.

Start your Vite frontends, FastAPI backends, Streamlit dashboards, and any other dev server -all from one place. No more juggling terminal tabs.

Features

  • Menu bar / tray app -lives in your macOS menu bar or Windows system tray, always one click away
  • Start/stop/restart any dev server with one click
  • Grouped apps -manage multi-service projects (e.g. frontend + backend) as a single unit
  • Live logs -stream stdout/stderr with color-coded output, search, and auto-scroll
  • Port detection -automatically finds free ports and shows the running URL
  • Python venv detection -auto-activates venv/, .venv/, or env/ if found
  • Console window -full dashboard with app metrics (CPU/memory), sortable table, config editor
  • Auto-start -flag apps to launch automatically when Launchpad starts
  • Dark/light theme -follows your system preference
  • Global shortcut -Cmd+Shift+L (macOS) / Ctrl+Shift+L (Windows) to toggle from anywhere

Install

macOS -one-liner

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/product-noob/launchpage-app/main/install.sh | bash

Downloads the latest universal DMG, installs to /Applications, and clears the quarantine flag so Gatekeeper doesn't block the first launch.

macOS -Homebrew

brew install --cask product-noob/tap/launchpad

Windows -one-liner (PowerShell)

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/product-noob/launchpage-app/main/install.ps1 | iex

Downloads the latest NSIS installer and runs it silently. The app will appear in your Start Menu.

Manual download

Download the latest release for your platform from GitHub Releases:

PlatformFile
Versions
1.0.0
Website
github.com
License
Last updated
3/7/2026
Download latest version
macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel)Launchpad-x.y.z-universal.dmg
Windows x64Launchpad Setup x.y.z.exe

> macOS note: If macOS shows a security warning, right-click the app and select "Open", or run: > bash > xattr -cr /Applications/Launchpad.app >

Build from Source

Requires Node.js 18+ and npm.

git clone https://github.com/product-noob/launchpage-app.git
cd launchpage-app
npm install
npm run dev        # Start dev server with HMR + Electron

Other commands

npm run build          # Compile TypeScript + bundle with Vite
npm run package        # Build + create macOS universal DMG
npm run package:win    # Build + create Windows NSIS installer
npm run package:all    # Build both macOS and Windows
npm run lint           # Run ESLint
npm run test           # Run tests

Adding Apps

  1. Click the tray icon to open Launchpad
  2. Click "Add App" at the bottom
  3. Fill in the app name, path, start command, type, and port
  4. Click "Add App" to save

For multi-service projects, toggle "Multi-service app" and add each service as a component.

Apps are stored in apps.json in your user data directory. See apps.example.json for the format.

Supported App Types

Vite, Streamlit, FastAPI, Astro, Node, Django, Flask, Express, Next.js, Nuxt, Remix, Svelte, Go, Rust, Ruby, Docker, Spring, Laravel, and a generic "other" type. Each gets its own color badge in the UI.

Tech Stack

  • Electron 40 -cross-platform desktop shell
  • React 19 -renderer UI
  • Vite 7 -bundler with HMR
  • Tailwind CSS v4 -styling
  • TypeScript -strict mode throughout

Architecture

Renderer (React in BrowserWindow)
  ↕ window.electronAPI (contextBridge)
Preload (electron/preload.ts)
  ↕ ipcRenderer.invoke / ipcMain.handle
Main Process (electron/main.ts + process-manager.ts)
  ↕ electron/platform.ts  (cross-platform: spawn, kill, venv, terminal, metrics)
  ↕ child_process.spawn
Managed Apps (your dev servers)

Context isolation is enabled. The preload script exposes a typed API surface -no nodeIntegration.

License

MIT