start.md

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Getting Started	2

The only requirement to get started with Leapkit is to have Go installed on your machine. You can download Go from here. Make sure you install the latest version of Go. Once you have installed Go, you can proceed to generate your first projects

go run go.leapkit.com/tools/new@latest [project_name]

Once the project is generated go into the project folder and download the dependencies with:

go mod download

This will install the necessary dependencies.

Starting the application

Running the application will depend on the version of Go you have intalled for Go 1.23 you can run:

go run go.leapkit.com/tools/dev@latest

If you're using Go 1.24 set that as a tool in your go.mod file. First download the tool (only once).

go get -tool go.leapkit.com/tools/dev

Then every time you want to run the application you can use the go tool shortcut to invoke the dev tool.

go tool dev

The dev tool reads the Procfile in the root of the folder and start the processes defined in it. Once the application is running it should be accessible locally.