Code formatting and linting

Recipe	Crates	Categories
Format your code
Lint your code
Fix compiler warnings automatically
Format or lint your code before committing it

Format your code

# Install `rustfmt` if needed
rustup component add rustfmt

cargo fmt

# Fails if code is not formatted; use in CD / CI
cargo fmt -- --check

Lint your code

Clippy is the official Rust linter. It catches common mistakes and improves your Rust code.

rustup component add clippy # install if needed
cargo clippy

Mute a warning using the #[allow(clippy::lint_name)] attributes.

Fix compiler warnings automatically

Can automatically fix compiler warnings that have a clear way to correct the problem that’s likely what you want.

cargo fix

Format or lint your code before committing it

cargo-husky⮳ setup Git hooks automatically for cargo projects with 🐶

Git hook scripts are useful for identifying simple issues (failing tests, trailing white spaces, formatting of the code, of JSON, and YAML files...) before committing code, prior to submission to code review.

Add the cargo-husky crate to the [dev-dependencies] section of your project's Cargo.toml.

[dev-dependencies]
cargo-husky = "1"

Then run tests in your project directory.

cargo test

See also pre-commit⮳, which is a Python framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.