14MORE ABOUT CARGO AND CRATES.IO

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So far we’ve used only the most basic features of Cargo to build, run, and test our code, but it can do a lot more. In this chapter, we’ll discuss some of its other, more advanced features to show you how to do the following:

  • Customize your build through release profiles
  • Publish libraries on https://crates.io/
  • Organize large projects with workspaces
  • Install binaries from https://crates.io/
  • Extend Cargo using custom commands

Cargo can do even more than what we cover in this chapter, so for a full explanation of all its features, see its documentation at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/.

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