Cargo Tools

Cargo Tools is a Visual Studio Code extension that provides IDE-like features for Rust/Cargo development. It complements rust-analyzer by adding project configuration controls, a workspace target browser, cargo-make task management, and cargo alias shortcuts.

Features

Project Configuration

• Select defaults for target platform, cargo profile, package
• Select default build run, benchmarks targets and features for packages
• Trigger cargo through user interface or key bindings
• Build documentation
• Install additional target platforms, clean build artifacts

Project Outline

• Overview over workspace
• Show available targets for workspace members
• Build, run, debug, test and clean workspace, packages and targets
• Filter by package name and target type
• Group by package or target type

xtask/alias and cargo-make Integration

• Overview over available cargo aliases and cargo make tasks
• Run tasks with or without additional arguments
• Filter by name or task category
• Pin default tasks and trigger them through key bindings

Usage

Requirements

• Visual Studio Code 1.102.0 or higher
• Rust toolchain with Cargo installed via rustup

Installation

Install Cargo Tools from the Visual Studio Marketplace or Open VSX.

Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.

ext install NickelWenzel.cargo-tools

Resources

• Docs for comprehensive documentation.
• Github for source code, issues, and contributing.

Development

Prerequisites

• Rust stable
• Node.js 20
• wasm-pack 0.14
• wasm-bindgen-cli 0.2.106

Development workflows through xtasks defined in .cargo/config.toml.

Contributing

Contributions welcome via PRs or issues on Github.

Inspiration

This extension draws inspiration from vscode-cmake-tools.

License

MIT