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Ch14 05 Extending Cargo

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Extending Cargo with Custom Commands

Cargo is designed so that you can extend it with new subcommands without having to modify it. If a binary in your $PATH is named cargo-something, you can run it as if it were a Cargo subcommand by running cargo something. Custom commands like this are also listed when you run cargo --list. Being able to use cargo install to install extensions and then run them just like the built-in Cargo tools is a super-convenient benefit of Cargo’s design!

Summary

Sharing code with Cargo and crates.io<!-- ignore --> is part of what makes the Rust ecosystem useful for many different tasks. Rust’s standard library is small and stable, but crates are easy to share, use, and improve on a timeline different from that of the language. Don’t be shy about sharing code that’s useful to you on crates.io<!-- ignore -->; it’s likely that it will be useful to someone else as well!