🍷 cargo-sample

A Cargo tool for bootstrapping new projects from repository examples. Always sample before you try.

🧑‍🔧 Installation

cargo install cargo-sample

💡 Usage

Create a new project based on an example from any cargo package that has a repo with examples

e.g.

mkdir demo-folder && cd demo-folder
cargo sample axum

----- or ------------

cargo sample axum demo-folder

This will:

1. Figure out the latest syable release of the crate
2. Clone the repository to a temporary folder, checkout the proper branch
3. Find the examples in the examples/ directory
4. Prompt you to select an example
5. Create a new project with the example's content on the demo folder

📈 TODO

• search for examples everywhere in the repo
• replace local dependencies in toml of examples for crates io dependencies
• allow sampling on already existing dir, kind of importing an example to my local project