This living document comprises my recommendations for how to organize and manage Rust CLI applications.
In this document, I cover some tips and best practices for writing Rust applications, informed by my experience writing real-world Rust tools. I've focused on command-line tools here, but many of the suggestions can be generalized to graphical and server applications as well. I hope you find them useful for your own applications.
If you haven't gone through the Rust CLI Book yet, I'd recommend reading it first. That book provides a lot of useful information about how to write command-line apps in Rust. This document covers some more advanced material and is more opinionated overall.
This document is hosted online at https://rust-cli-recommendations.sunshowers.io. The source is hosted on GitHub.
This document is available offline by installing git and running the following command while online.
git clone https://github.com/sunshowers-code/rust-cli-recommendations --branch gh-pagesthen pointing your web browser at rust-cli-recommendations/index.html.
Pull requests to fix typos or unclear language are welcome! If you have a suggestion for a change to the document, please search through the issues to see if it's been discussed already. If not, please open an issue.
Tip: While reading the book, you can hit the edit button in the top right corner to make a quick change to it.
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