Rust Doc Viewer

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View locally generated rust documentation within VS Code
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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rust-doc-viewer

This extension will take your locally generated project docs and display them in a new window for easier reference.

Use

  • Create the documentation using cargo doc inside of your project folder
  • Open the folder in VS Code
  • Open the Command Palette Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P
  • Search and activate Rust: Doc Viewer

Features

Open your rust docs and view them in another tab on VS Code

Rust Doc Viewer Demo

Known Issues

1.) No easy navigation

2.) Requires documentation to be in the standard output from `cargo docs` 

3.) Testing and build automation

Release Notes

1.0.11

  • Discover all rust packages in workspace

1.0.10

  • Rollback 1.0.9

1.0.9

  • Fix bug discovering docs with various supported workspace configurations
  • Remove dependency on toml

1.0.8

  • Fix bug discovering docs with package that uses hyphens -, since rust replaces with them with an underscore _

1.0.7

  • Fix bug improperly discovering docs in a Rust workspace (Not VS Code workspace)

1.0.6

  • List rust folders with rust standard structure
  • Open multiple Rust docs per workspace (i.e. a workspace with multiple Rust projects)

1.0.5

  • vscode dependencies contained a vulnerability. Updated package to latest with no gulp dependency
  • js-yaml contained vulnerabilities. Updated via npm audit fix
  • Add ability to handle untitled workspaces

1.0.4

  • Add icon and update banner

1.0.3

  • Remove configuration until it can be used and is fully functional
  • Fix nested navigation path resolution

1.0.2

  • Update README with more setup information

1.0.1

  • Fix issue finding generated docs

1.0.0

  • Initial release of Rust Doc Viewer