# cargo-modules
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[](https://crates.io/crates/cargo-modules/)
[](https://crates.io/crates/cargo-modules/)
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## Synopsis
A cargo plugin for showing an overview of a crate's modules.
## Motivation
With time, as your Rust projects grow bigger and bigger, it gets more and more important to properly structure your code.
Fortunately Rust provides us with a quite sophisticated module system, allowing us to neatly split up our crates into arbitrarily small sub-modules of types and functions.
While this helps to avoid monolithic and unstructured chunks of code, it can also make it hard at times to still mentally stay on top of the over-all high-level structure of the project at hand.
This is where `cargo-modules` comes into play:
## Installation
Install `cargo-modules` via:
```bash
cargo install cargo-modules
```
## Usage
### Print crate as a tree
```bash
cargo modules generate tree <OPTIONS>
```
```terminal
USAGE:
cargo-modules generate tree [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]
FLAGS:
--all-features Activate all available features
-h, --help Prints help information
--lib Process only this package's library
--no-default-features Do not activate the `default` feature
-V, --version Prints version information
--verbose Enable verbose messages during command execution
--with-orphans Include orphaned modules (i.e. unused files in /src)
--with-tests Include tests (e.g. `#[cfg(test)] mod tests { … }`)
--with-types Include types (e.g. structs, enums)
OPTIONS:
--bin <bin> Process only the specified binary
--features <features>... List of features to activate. This will be ignored if `--cargo-all-features`
is provided
--focus-on <focus-on> Focus the graph on a particular path's environment
--manifest-path <manifest-path> [default: ./Cargo.toml]
--max-depth <max-depth> The maximum depth of the generated graph relative to the node selected by
'--focus-on'
-p, --package <package> Package to process (see `cargo help pkgid`)
--target <target> rustc target
```
### Print crate as a graph
```bash
cargo modules generate graph <OPTIONS>
```
```terminal
USAGE:
cargo-modules generate graph [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]
FLAGS:
--all-features Activate all available features
-h, --help Prints help information
--lib Process only this package's library
--no-default-features Do not activate the `default` feature
-V, --version Prints version information
--verbose Enable verbose messages during command execution
--with-externs Include used modules and types from extern crates
--with-orphans Include orphaned modules (i.e. unused files in /src)
--with-tests Include tests (e.g. `#[cfg(test)] mod tests { … }`)
--with-types Include types (e.g. structs, enums)
--with-uses Include used modules and types
OPTIONS:
--bin <bin> Process only the specified binary
--features <features>... List of features to activate. This will be ignored if `--cargo-all-features`
is provided
--focus-on <focus-on> Focus the graph on a particular path's environment
--layout <layout> The graph layout algorithm to use (e.g. dot, neato, twopi, circo, fdp, sfdp)
[default: neato]
--manifest-path <manifest-path> [default: ./Cargo.toml]
--max-depth <max-depth> The maximum depth of the generated graph relative to the node selected by
'--focus-on'
-p, --package <package> Package to process (see `cargo help pkgid`)
--target <target> rustc target
If you have xdot installed on your system, you can run this using:
`cargo modules generate dependencies | xdot -`
```
### No-Color Mode
cargo-modules checks for the presence of a `NO_COLOR` environment variable that, when present (regardless of its value), prevents the addition of color to the console output.
## Contributing
Please read [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details on our [code of conduct](https://www.rust-lang.org/conduct.html),
and the process for submitting pull requests to us.
## Versioning
We use [SemVer](http://semver.org/) for versioning. For the versions available, see the [tags on this repository](https://github.com/regexident/cargo-modules/tags).
## License
This project is licensed under the [**MPL-2.0**](https://www.tldrlegal.com/l/mpl-2.0) – see the [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md) file for details.