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cargo make
Use devx
Make Rust a Better bash with xshell

cargo make

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cargo make is a Rust task runner and build tool. The cargo-make⮳ task runner enables to define and configure sets of tasks and run them as a flow. A task is a command, script, rust code, or other sub tasks to execute. Tasks can have dependencies which are also tasks that will be executed before the task itself. With a simple toml based configuration file, you can define a multi platform build script that can run build, test, generate documentation, run bench tests, run security validations and more, executed by running a single command.

Install with

cargo install --force cargo-make
cargo make --version

automating-your-rust-workflows-with-cargo-make⮳.

cargo xtask

cargo-xtask⮳ adds free-form automation to a Rust project, a-la make, npm run or bespoke bash scripts.

The two distinguishing features of xtask⮳ are the following:

• It doesn't require any other binaries besides cargo⮳ and rustc⮳, it fully bootstraps from them.
• Unlike bash, it can more easily be cross platform, as it doesn't use the shell.

Use devx

devx⮳ is a collection of utilities for writing your own dev scripts in Rust. The project is inspired by and intended for seamless usage with cargo-xtask⮳ idioms.

devx-cmd⮳ provides primitives for spawning child processes that are easier than std::process targeted when used in development scripts. devx-pre-commit⮳ creates git pre-commit hooks that enforce good practices.

Make Rust a Better bash with xshell

xshell⮳ provides a set of cross-platform utilities for writing cross-platform and ergonomic "bash" scripts.

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