Rust Repository Template 🦀

Repository template to get quickly started with writing Rust libraries, ready for distributing.

Getting started

Open your favorite terminal and clone this locally.

• With the GitHub CLI: Use the command below. Replace <project> with what you'd like to call your project.

  gh repo create <project> --template neoncitylights/rust

• With the GitHub UI: You can create a new repository based on this template by clicking the "Use this template" button in the top-right corner of this page.

Features

• Remote development support with GitHub Codespaces
• Debugging with the LLDB Debugger tool in Visual Studio Code (VSCode Marketplace)
• Fuzz testing with LLVM's libFuzzer tool and cargo fuzz (Reference)
• Performance benchmarks in Rust with Criterion and Iai (suitable to run in GitHub Actions CI environments)
• CI/CD support with GitHub Actions
• Running tests and benchmarks
• Running Rustfmt and Clippy for detecting formatting and linting errors, respectively
• Weekly, midnight scheduled audits of Rust packages (for outdated dependencies, compatible software licenses, and software vulnerabilities) with EmbarkStudios/cargo-deny-action

Configure

Tool	File path	Reference
GitHub Codespaces	devcontainer.json	Reference
GitHub Actions	.github/workflows	Reference
Cargo package	Cargo.toml	Reference
Clippy (Rust linter)	.clippy.toml	Repository, Reference
Rustfmt (Rust formatter)	.rustfmt.toml	Repository, Reference
cargo-deny	deny.toml	Repository

Run scripts locally

Script	Command
Run unit/integration/doc tests	cargo test
Run fuzz tests	cargo fuzz <fuzz-target>
Run Rustfmt	cargo fmt
Run Clippy	cargo clippy
Run performance benchmarks	cargo bench
Generate API docs for crate	cargo doc
Generate mdBook docs for crate	mdbook build
Run security audits	cargo audit1

Footnotes

1. Requires installing cargo-audit locally ↩