ʻO ka leaflet kahi waihona waihona JavaScript i hoʻohana ʻia no ke kūkulu ʻana i nā noi palapala palapala pūnaewele. Ua hoʻokuʻu mua ʻia i ka makahiki 2011, kākoʻo ʻo ia i ka hapa nui o nā paepae kelepona a me ka papa kuhikuhi, kākoʻo iā HTML5 a me CSS3. Ma waena o kāna mau mea hoʻohana ʻo FourSquare, Pinterest a me Flickr. Hāʻawi ka Leaflet i nā mea hoʻomohala me ka ʻole o ke kāʻei GIS e hōʻike maʻalahi i nā palapala ʻāina pūnaewele i hoʻokipa ʻia ma kahi kikowaena lehulehu, me nā uhi ʻili i koho ʻia. Hiki iā ia ke hoʻouka i ka ʻikepili hiʻohiʻona mai nā faila GeoJSON, kāhiko a hana i nā papa pānaʻi, e like me nā māka me nā popups ke kaomi ʻia.