Ecosystem Exploration

The root level place folks head to for the Rust Ecosystem is:

• crates.io
  • Publishing crates to crates.io is a well understood topic.
  • It gets much more complex when dealing with private/internal crate repositories.
• You will add things here to your Cargo.toml file under [dependencies]
• Documentation, will be published to docs.rs
• crates in general are versioned and compiled libraries/executables, built from a package repository.
  • It's usually okay to interchange the term "crate" and "package," but they do have specific meaning in some contexts.
  • Once published to a public place like crates.io, a crate can be redacted, but are otherwise immutable.

cargo itself, has it's own ecosystem of tools, like:

• cargo-generate - Templates for Cargo
• cargo-llvm-cov - Code Coverage (I end up using 2 different code coverage tools)
• cargo-audit - Rust specific vulnerability scanner
• ... plus a whole lot more...