A template Rust project with fully functional and no-frills Nix support, as well as builtin VSCode configuration to get IDE experience without any manual setup (just install direnv, open in VSCode and accept the suggestions). It uses crane, via rust-flake.
Note
If you are looking for the original template based on this blog post's use of crate2nix, browse from this tag. The evolution of this template can be gleaned from releases.
- Run
nix developto have a working shell ready before name change. - Change
namein Cargo.toml. - Run
cargo generate-lockfilein the nix shell - There are two CI workflows, and one of them uses Nix which is slower (unless you configure a cache) than the other that is based on rustup. Pick one or the other depending on your trade-offs.
This repo uses Flakes from the get-go.
# Dev shell
nix develop
# or run via cargo
nix develop -c cargo run
# build
nix buildWe also provide a justfile for Makefile'esque commands.