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vLLM Launcher — Windows Desktop Workbench for Local LLMs (vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp)

VLLM Launcher, a Windows desktop app for managing local LLM inference through WSL2, has been released as v0.1.0-alpha. The app supports multiple engines including vLLM, SGLang, and llama.cpp, and provides an OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible API gateway. It is available as a portable Windows release (~31 MB) and is built with Go/Wails, React/TypeScript, and Node.js.

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Hi everyone,

I’m sharing a project I’ve been building: vLLM Launcher — a Windows desktop app for managing local LLM inference through WSL2.

What it does:

Multi-engine management: vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp from one desktop UI

Local API gateway with OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible endpoints

Instance cards for start/stop/restart/inspect workflows

Request logs, health checks, runtime metrics, and disk model discovery

Floating mode for compact status while working in other apps

WSL process orchestration that survives Node.js restarts

Tech stack:

Go / Wails desktop shell

React + TypeScript frontend

Node.js API service

Model engines running inside WSL2

Download: Windows portable release (~31 MB, unzip and run) This is the first public release (v0.1.0-alpha). Feedback and setup issues are especially welcome since I’m still refining the installation flow across different Windows/WSL/driver setups.

Would love to hear from anyone running local models on Windows!

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