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How to Publish Your First Rust Crate?

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You Need an Account

Before you start publishing any crate to crates.io, you first have to create an account.

  • Go to crates.io
  • Login with GitHub
  • Verify your Email

Then Login

  • Create a New Token form Account Settings in the API Access section
  • Run the command you get to the login

Get Your Project Ready

  • Add the following fields in the Cargo.toml file
    • license or license-file
    • description
    • documentation
    • homepage or repository
  • You need to commit your work before publishing
  • Do a dry run by running
cargo publish --dry-run
  • Fix any errors or warnings after the dry run

And Publish

cargo publish

Let the World Use Your Crate :)