# cargo-modules
[](https://travis-ci.org/regexident/cargo-modules)
[](https://crates.io/crates/cargo-modules/)
[](https://crates.io/crates/cargo-modules/)
[](https://crates.io/crates/cargo-modules/)
## 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
--cfg-test Analyze with `#[cfg(test)]` enabled
-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 Use verbose output
--with-fns Include functions (e.g. fns, async fns, const fns)
--with-orphans Include orphaned modules (i.e. unused files in /src)
--with-sysroot Include sysroot crates (`std`, `core` & friends) in analysis
--with-tests Include tests (e.g. `#[test] fn …`)
--with-traits Include traits (e.g. trait, unsafe trait)
--with-types Include types (e.g. structs, unions, 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 or use-tree's environment, e.g.
"foo:bar::{self, baz, blee::*}"
--manifest-path <manifest-path> Path to Cargo.toml [default: .]
--max-depth <max-depth> The maximum depth of the generated graph relative to the crate's root node,
or nodes selected by '--focus-on'
-p, --package <package> Package to process (see `cargo help pkgid`)
--target <target> Analyze for target triple
```
The following image is the result of using the following command to generate a tree of the `smoke` test project within its own repo:
```bash
cd ./tests/projects/smoke
cargo-modules generate tree --with-types --with-tests --with-orphans
```
#### Line Structure
The individual lines are structured as follows:
```plain
└── <keyword> <name>: <visibility> <test-attributes>
```
#### Line Colors
The `<keyword>` is highlighted in 🔵 blue to visually separate it from the name.
Test modules and functions have their corresponding `<test-attributes>` (i.e. `#[cfg(test)]` / `#[test]`) printed next to them in gray and cyan.
The `<visibility>` ([more info](https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/visibility-and-privacy.html)) is further more highlighted by the following colors:
| 🟢 green | Items visible to all and everything (i.e. `pub`) |
| 🟡 yellow | Items visible to the current crate (i.e. `pub(crate)`) |
| 🟠 orange | Items visible to a certain parent module (i.e. `pub(in path)`) |
| 🔴 red | Items visible to the current module (i.e. `pub(self)`, implied by lack of `pub …`) |
| 🟣 purple | Orphaned modules (i.e. a file exists on disk but no corresponding `mod …`) |
### 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
--cfg-test Analyze with `#[cfg(test)]` enabled
-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 Use verbose output
--with-externs Include used modules and types from extern crates
--with-fns Include functions (e.g. fns, async fns, const fns)
--with-orphans Include orphaned modules (i.e. unused files in /src)
--with-sysroot Include sysroot crates (`std`, `core` & friends) in analysis
--with-tests Include tests (e.g. `#[test] fn …`)
--with-traits Include traits (e.g. trait, unsafe trait)
--with-types Include types (e.g. structs, unions, 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 or use-tree's environment, e.g.
"foo:bar::{self, baz, blee::*}"
--layout <layout> The graph layout algorithm to use (e.g. dot, neato, twopi, circo, fdp, sfdp)
[default: neato]
--manifest-path <manifest-path> Path to Cargo.toml [default: .]
--max-depth <max-depth> The maximum depth of the generated graph relative to the crate's root node,
or nodes selected by '--focus-on'
-p, --package <package> Package to process (see `cargo help pkgid`)
--target <target> Analyze for target triple
If you have xdot installed on your system, you can run this using:
`cargo modules generate dependencies | xdot -`
```
The following image is the result of using the following command to generate a graph of the `smoke` test project within its own repo:
```bash
cd ./tests/projects/smoke
#### Node Structure
The individual nodes are structured as follows:
```plain
┌────────────────────────┐
│ <visibility> <keyword> │
├────────────────────────┤
│ <path> │
└────────────────────────┘
```
#### Node Colors
The `<visibility>` ([more info](https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/visibility-and-privacy.html)) is further more highlighted by the following colors:
| 🔵 blue | Crates (i.e. their implicit root module) |
| 🟢 green | Items visible to all and everything (i.e. `pub`) |
| 🟡 yellow | Items visible to the current crate (i.e. `pub(crate)`) |
| 🟠 orange | Items visible to a certain parent module (i.e. `pub(in path)`) |
| 🔴 red | Items visible to the current module (i.e. `pub(self)`, implied by lack of `pub …`) |
| 🟣 purple | Orphaned modules (i.e. a file exists on disk but no corresponding `mod …`) |
### 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.