Getting back into Rust, I want to start documenting my journey to getting a small service running. The first "problem" I had to solve was to add dependencies to the project.
The official method is to add the dependencies manually in your Cargo.toml file. However,
this is not convenient, and could lead to errors quite easily.
Thankfully, you can make this easier using cargo-edit. This will let you add, remove, upgrade dependencies or set-version of your crate.
To install cargo-edit, simply run
cargo install cargo-editThen, as I wanted to install axum, I simply ran
cargo add axum
To install a package with extra features, such as tokio with full features
cargo add tokio --features=fullWhenever I want to upgrade all packages, I can then
cargo upgradeI can also update a single package
cargo upgrade axumDo not mistake upgrade and update. The upgrade command will upgrade your dependencies to the latest version, while the update command is a cargo builtin that will update your Cargo.lock.