Short and handpick Rust crates list.

Exceptions

• cargo add eyre
  • include error location: file name and line
• cargo add anyhow
  • without location
• cargo add thiserror

Global Variable

crate	Use cases
std::cell::OnceCell	Single Thread
std::sync::OnceLock	Multi-Thread
cargo add once_cell	All

Rust patterns

• cargo add regex
• cargo add dotenvy
• cargo add fastrand
• cargo add rand
• cargo add duplicate
• cargo add display_json
• cargo add itertools
• cargo add generator

Data Type

• cargo add uuid --features v4,fast-rng
• cargo add byteorder bytes
• cargo add indexmap
• cargo add rust_decimal
  • support Decimal::MAX 7.92e28
• cargo add bigdecimal
  • used when num > Decimal::MAX
• cargo add num-bigint
  • used when num > i128::MAX 1.7e38

Date and Time

• cargo add chrono --no-default-features --features clock,serde
• cargo add chrono-tz
• cargo add time --features formatting,macros

Enum

• cargo add num_enum
• cargo add strum --features derive
• cargo add enum-iterator
• cargo add serde_with
  • has extra features
  • serde string enum
• cargo add serde_repr
  • serde num enum

Logging

• cargo add log --features release_max_level_info
• cargo add env_logger
• cargo add flexi_logger
  • has extra features

File Access

• cargo add glob

Excel Processing

• cargo add calamine
  • has extra features
• cargo add rust_xlsxwriter --features zlib,ryu

Xml Processing

• cargo add roxmltree
• cargo add quick-xml
  • has extra features

Serialization

• cargo add serde --features derive
• cargo add serde_json
  • has extra features
• cargo add yaml-rust2

Web Client

• cargo add reqwest --features json,gzip,native-tls-alpn
• cargo add scraper
  • web content extracting

ORM & SQL Tools

• cargo add tokio-postgres --features with-serde_json-1,with-chrono-0_4
• cargo add deadpool-postgres
• cargo add postgres-from-row
• cargo add postgres-types --features derive
• cargo add sqlx --features runtime-tokio,tls-native-tls,postgres,chrono
• cargo add sea-orm --features sqlx-postgres,runtime-tokio-native-tls,macros

Web Framework

• cargo add axum
• cargo add axum-extra --features typed-header
• cargo add tower-http --features cors
• cargo add jsonwebtoken
• cargo add validator --features derive
• cargo add serde_urlencoded

Web3

• cargo add alloy
• ethers = { version = "2.0.13", default-features = false, features = ["abigen", "legacy", "openssl"] }

KV DataBase

• cargo add rocksdb

Message Queue

• cargo add pulsar --no-default-features --features tokio-runtime,compression
• cargo add schemars
  • has extra features
  • make pulsar json schema

Data Analysis

• cargo add polars --features parquet,lazy,is_in,rank,abs,streaming,cutqcut,propagate_nans
• cargo add ndarray --features rayon

Version Structure

• cargo add semver

Async

• cargo add futures-util
• cargo add tokio --features full
• cargo add async-channel

Concurrency

• cargo add rayon

Shell

• cargo add colored
• cargo add mincolor
• cargo add crossterm --no-default-features --features events
• cargo add enable-ansi-support
  • for windows
• cargo add clap --features derive
• cargo add pico-args
• cargo add indicatif
• cargo add ratatui

System Info

• cargo add sysinfo
• cargo add num_cpus

Cryptography

• hashes

Algorithm

• cargo add aho-corasick
• cargo add alphanumeric-sort
• cargo add float-ord

Language bindings

• pyo3

Optimize Performance

• arc-swap
• phf