Lepton For Linux

If you ever used GitHub, you may have heard about the so-called "gists." A "gist" is basically a code snippet that can be either private or public. If you didn't, that's understandable, since the main GitHub website is not all that "keen" on promoting GitHub gists.

Here's where Lepton might be of use. Lepton is a free and open-source, lean snippet manager powered by GitHub Gist.

In short, Lepton makes it as effortless as possible for you to manage your GitHub gists. It also supports tags, search, and sharing, and it packs a surprisingly capable rich-text editor as well as a markdown viewer.

As mentioned before, Lepton is based on the Electron framework. It was built using a combination of Webpack, Bable, and electron-builder, and is written in ES6 and Sass. Some of the libraries used for the project include React, Redux, Redux Thunk, and Redux Form.

Thanks to its various organization tools, its Jupyter Notebook, and Markdown support, it makes it easy for you to organize and manage GitHub Gists directly from the comforts of your computer's desktop.

The app allows you to add an unlimited number of both public and private snippets, as well as add an unlimited number of tags in order to properly organize them. The app also boasts support for GitHub Enterprise and GitHub token.

It also has an "Immersive mode," Light and Dark themes, and proxy support. One of the most impressive aspects of Lepton is just how customizable it is. Besides the GUI, you can pretty much customize everything you want including the snippets themselves, the editor, the logger, the proxy, the shortcuts, as well as notifications.

Lepton is a modern and very well-designed snippet manager for GitHub gists. It's very easy to use, it looks good, and it works without issues on all major desktop platforms out there such as Windows, macOS, and Linux (works on most distributions thanks to its AppImage binary).