Rust for Rustaceans

5 Project Structure

This chapter provides some ideas for structuring your Rust projects. For simple projects, the structure set up by cargo new is likely to be something you think little about. You may add some modules to split up the code, and some dependencies for additional functionality, but that’s about it. However, as a project grows in size and complexity, you’ll find that you need to go beyond that. Maybe the compilation time for your crate is getting out of hand, or you need conditional dependencies, or you need a better strategy for continuous integration. In this chapter, we will look at some of the tools that the Rust language, ...