Resources

Collaboration / help

• cli-and-tui Discord Channel

Crates referenced in this book

• anyhow - provides anyhow::Error for easy error handling
• assert_cmd - simplifies integration testing of CLIs
• assert_fs - Setup input files and test output files
• clap-verbosity-flag - adds a --verbose flag to clap CLIs
• clap - command line argument parser
• confy - boilerplate-free configuration management
• crossbeam-channel - provides multi-producer multi-consumer channels for message passing
• ctrlc - easy ctrl-c handler
• env_logger - implements a logger configurable via environment variables
• exitcode - system exit code constants
• human-panic - panic message handler
• indicatif - progress bars and spinners
• log - provides logging abstracted over implementation
• predicates - implements boolean-valued predicate functions
• proptest - property testing framework
• serde_json - serialize/deserialize to JSON
• signal-hook - handles UNIX signals
• tokio - asynchronous runtime
• wasm-pack - tool for building WebAssembly

Other crates

Due to the constantly-changing landscape of Rust crates, a good place to find crates is the lib.rs crate index, including:

• Command-line interface
• Configuration
• Database interfaces
• Encoding
• Filesystem
• HTTP Client
• Operating systems

Other resources:

• Rust Cookbook
• rosetta-rs