How to Create and Publish Your First Rust Package (Crate)

Building and distributing reusable code is a major milestone in Rust. In the Rust ecosystem, packages are called crates, and they are managed through Cargo—Rust’s official build system and package manager.

In this guide, we cover:

• Scaffolding binary vs. library crates
• Setting up metadata and dependencies in Cargo.toml
• Best practices for testing and generating documentation
• Publishing your package to crates.io

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