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Install leaps with Homebrew, Nix

Collaborative web-based text editing service written in Golang. Version 0.9.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-26. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#leaps.

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Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install leaps

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#leaps

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/le/leaps/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Collaborative web-based text editing service written in Golang

Commands and aliases

  • leaps

history

Project history and usage

leaps is a Go service for collaboratively editing local files through a web UI, using operational transforms to synchronize multiple editing clients.

Project history

The repository presents leaps as a pair-programming service built around operational transforms. Public tags show active release work in 2017 and a dependency-maintenance tag in 2021.

Adoption history

Adoption appears niche but visible in package-manager collections: the repository listed hundreds of GitHub stars in July 2026, and Homebrew and Nix package it as a self-hostable collaborative text-editing service.

How it is used

The intended workflow is to run the service locally and allow collaborators to edit local files through the browser, with operational transforms preventing edit collisions across connected clients.

Why package nerds care

leaps is interesting to package nerds as an early Go implementation of collaborative text editing packaged as a standalone CLI/service rather than as an editor plugin or hosted web application.

Timeline

  • 2017-04-28: v0.6.0 tag published.
  • 2017-07-14: v0.8.2 tag added a discard flag for safe mode.
  • 2018-02-19: v0.9.0 tag transitioned the project to dep.
  • 2021-02-22: v0.9.1 tag fixed dependencies.

Related projects

  • Related tools and concepts include operational transforms, ShareDB, Etherpad, Codeshare-style pair-programming services, editor collaboration plugins, and later CRDT-based collaboration systems.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 13 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
leapscliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-04
manager version0.9.1
manager updated2026-07-26
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.9.1

https://github.com/Jeffail/leaps

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:leaps
Version0.9.1
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/leaps
Homepagehttps://github.com/jeffail/leaps
Repositoryhttps://github.com/jeffail/leaps
LicenseMIT
Source archivehttps://github.com/Jeffail/leaps/archive/refs/tags/v0.9.1.tar.gz
Last updated2026-07-26T13:41:00+02:00
Pulseupdated
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameleaps
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedyes
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

leaps

nix profile install nixpkgs#leaps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Leaps
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/le/leaps/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • vimShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, productivity, text-editor.
  • emacsShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, productivity, text-editor.
  • fresh-editorShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, productivity, text-editor.
  • slackdumpShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, collaboration, productivity.
  • geditShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, productivity, text-editor.
  • joeShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, productivity, text-editor.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment
  • pkg.so package database
  • pkgdb category and tag curation