rust-nix-template/README.md

A template Rust project with fully functional and no-frills Nix support, as well as builtin VSCode configuration to get IDE support without doing anything (open in VSCode and accept the suggestions).

See Nix-ifying Rust projects for details.

Adapting this template

Change name in Cargo.toml and flake.nix. Also change description in flake.nix.

Development (Flakes)

This repo uses Flakes from the get-go, but compat is provided for traditional nix-shell/nix-build as well (see the section below).

# Dev shell
nix develop

# or just run directly
nix run

# or run via cargo
nix develop -c cargo run

# build
nix build

Development (Legacy Nix)

# Dev shell
nix-shell

# run via cargo
nix-shell --run 'cargo run'

# build
nix-build