Rust Tooling: 8 tools that will increase your productivity

• cargo-machete

  3 555 7.3 Rust

  Remove unused Rust dependencies with this one weird trick!

cargo-machete is a Cargo plugin for cutting out unused dependencies from your project. To install it, you can use cargo install cargo-machete then use cargo machete in a Rust project directory.

• testcontainers-node

  27 1,705 8.4 TypeScript

  Testcontainers is a NodeJS library that supports tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

  

Testing with added infrastructure can be quite tricky. testcontainers aims to solve this by providing an open-source framework for providing local, lightweight containers for your application that can be immediately thrown away after use. It also has a Rust SDK!

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• cargo-make

  26 2,408 9.2 Rust

  Rust task runner and build tool.

cargo-make aims to be an extensive Rust-written task runner that additionally lets you define workflows to execute your tasks. You can install it using cargo install cargo-make.

• nextest

  16 1,968 9.8 Rust

  A next-generation test runner for Rust.

  

cargo-nextest describes itself as a “next-generation Rust test runner”. To install, you need to run cargo install cargo-nextest.

• rustsec

  33 1,530 9.5 Rust

  RustSec API & Tooling

  

cargo-audit is a simple Cargo tool for detecting vulnerable Rust crates. You can install it with cargo install cargo-audit, use cargo audit and you’re done! Any vulnerable crates will appear below, like so:

• testcontainers-rs

  6 604 7.7 Rust

  A library for integration-testing against docker containers from within Rust.

  

Testing with added infrastructure can be quite tricky. testcontainers aims to solve this by providing an open-source framework for providing local, lightweight containers for your application that can be immediately thrown away after use. It also has a Rust SDK!

• testcontainers-rs-modules-community

  1 47 8.6 Rust

  Community maintained modules for Testcontainers for Rust

  

Then we will need to add another dependency called testcontainers-modules alongside the feature we want (for the container we want to use). For this example, let’s use a Postgres database:

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• console

  20 3,196 8.5 Rust

  a debugger for async rust! (by tokio-rs)

  

tokio-console is a debugger for Rust async programs that use Tokio. To get started, add the console-subscriber crate to your project and add the following line which will initialise the subscriber and allow tokio-console to connect to it:

• flamegraph

  47 4,325 7.4 Rust

  Easy flamegraphs for Rust projects and everything else, without Perl or pipes <3 (by flamegraph-rs)

  

You can install cargo-flamegraph with cargo install flamegraph. There are some underlying requirements to be able to use cargo-flamegraph; you will want to take a look at the repo here to make sure you have the right dependencies.

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