Project Management

As your programs grow in size, it becomes crucial to organize your code effectively. By grouping related functionalities and separating distinct features, you make it easier to locate the code responsible for a specific feature and to modify how that feature operates. Let's look at how a Rust project can be organized.

Paraphrasing the Rust documentation, Rust offers several features to help you manage your code’s organization, including which details are exposed, which are private, and what names are in each scope of your programs. These features, often collectively referred to as the module system, include:

• Packages: A Cargo feature that lets you build, test, and share crates.
• Crates: A tree of modules that produces a library or executable.
• Modules and use: Allow you to control the organization, scope, and privacy of paths.
• Paths: A way of naming an item, such as a struct, function, or module.

All the details about managing projects can be found in the Managing Growing Projects with Packages, Crates, and Modules section of The Rust Programming Language documentation.