Rust Template

Environment settings

Install Rust

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Install VSCode Extensions

• crates: Rust package management
• Even Better TOML: TOML file support
• Better Comments: Optimized comment display
• Error Lens: Improved error prompts
• GitLens: Enhanced Git features
• Github Copilot: Code suggestions
• indent-rainbow: Indentation display optimization
• Prettier - Code formatter: Code formatting tool
• REST client: REST API debugging tool
• rust-analyzer：Rust language support
• Rust Test lens：Rust test support
• Rust Test Explorer：Rust test overview
• TODO Highlight：TODO highlighting
• vscode-icons：Icon optimization
• YAML：YAML file support

Install cargo generate

cargo generate is a tool for generating project templates. It can use an existing GitHub repo as a template to generate a new project.

cargo install cargo-generate

The new project will use the upupnoah/rust-template template to generate basic code:：

cargo generate upupnoah/rust-template

Install pre-commit

pre-commit is a code checking tool that can perform code checks before committing code.

pipx install pre-commit

After successful installation, run pre-commit install.

Install cargo-deny

Cargo deny is a Cargo plugin that can be used to check the security of dependencies.

cargo install --locked cargo-deny

Install typos

Typos is a spell checking tool.

cargo install typos-cli

Install git-cliff

git cliff is a tool for generating changelogs.

cargo install git-cliff

Install cargo nextest

cargo nextest is an enhanced testing tool for Rust.

cargo install cargo-nextest --locked

Template Usage

1. cargo generate rust-noah/rust-template

2. Enter the directory, modify the cliff.toml file, change the URL after replace= to your own repository address (you need to create a repository first)

   1. Create an empty repository on GitHub (excluding README, .gitignore, and LICENSE).
   2. cd new-project-dir (Name of the new project)
   3. Execute the command in the empty project created in step 1 (git remote add ...)

3. pre-commit install

4. Change the package.name in the Cargo.toml file to the name of the new project.

Note:

• If git commit encounters problems, please delete deny.toml and then execute cargo deny init

  • Add the code below to licenses.

    unlicensed = "allow"
    allow = [
    "MIT",
    "Apache-2.0",
    "Unicode-DFS-2016",
    "MPL-2.0",
    "BSD-2-Clause",
    "BSD-3-Clause",
    "ISC",
    "CC0-1.0",
    ]