Formatting and Linting

Recipe	Crates	Categories
Rustfmt
Rustfmt Configuration
Formatting attributes

Rustfmt

Install with rustup component add rustfmt

rustfmt <filename e.g. lib.rs> <main.rs> ...

# or for the whole project
cargo fmt

Using --check instructs rustfmt⮳ to exit with an error code if the input is not formatted correctly (useful for CI).

cargo fmt --all -- --check

Rustfmt Configuration

Create a rustfmt.toml in the project root folder. For example,

edition = "2021"
style_edition = "2021"
unstable_features = true

newline_style = "Unix"
#max_width = 100 # default: 100
use_small_heuristics = "Max"
format_code_in_doc_comments = true
indent_style = "Visual"

# Imports
imports_granularity = "Item" # or "Crate" or "Module"
imports_layout = "Vertical"
group_imports = "StdExternalCrate"

# Comments
comment_width = 100
wrap_comments = true
normalize_comments = true
normalize_doc_attributes = true

# Functions
fn_params_layout = "Compressed"

# Impl
reorder_impl_items = true

# Structs
use_field_init_shorthand = true

# Macros
use_try_shorthand = true

List config options with

rustfmt --help=config

Formatting attributes

For things you do not want rustfmt to mangle, use #[rustfmt::skip] , #[rustfmt::skip::macros(macro_name)] , or #![rustfmt::skip::attributes(custom_attribute)]