# How to Publish Your First Rust Crate?

With crates, you share your work with other developers, learn how to publish your first crate.

Published: November 17, 2021


## You Need an Account

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

- Go to [crates.io](https://crates.io/)
- Login with GitHub
- Verify your Email

## Then Login

- Create a New Token form [Account Settings](https://crates.io/me) 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 :)