Building a Rust CLI with subcommands using structopt and clap

Using structopt we can derive our arguments from an enum to generate subcommands.

Parsing Rust enums from JSON with Serde and tagged types

JSON, being untyped, can represent multiple types in the same field. Serde can parse these into Rust enums in a few ways.

Automatically Pinning Spotify listening party messages in Discord with Serenity

Are functions in Rust statements or expressions?

A key insight into the Rust language is what an expression is and that they return values in tail position, leading to 'implicit returns'.

On-Demand (lazy) inputs for incremental computation in salsa with file watching powered by notify in Rust

The Salsa crate allows us to trigger incremental computation through input chagnes. When paired with file watching, we can trigger regeneration of derived queries through file changes.

Checking for a minimum node version in Rust with Command

Rust's Command allows us to execute subcommands and gather the output easily allowing us to do things like check for a node version when building tools for JS devs.

Piping Rust code to rustfmt with configuration for shorter code examples in blog posts

You can pipe code directly to rustfmt when sharing code on different platforms (or your blog) to make it more readable for other people.

Custom Error types with Nom 5

Parsing can result in many application specific errors. Here's how to signal that when using the Nom parser-combinator library.

Serving HTTP over unix domain sockets with Tide

When building tools for JS devs, one way we can enable users to write JS that communicates with our Rust implementations is via sockets.

Concatenating two string slices &str in Rust

Using format! to concatenate two strings is idomatic Rust, even though it's not the absolute fastest way.

Processing realtime tweets from twitter in Rust

Using egg_mode and the tokio runtime enables us to use streams and futures to pull in and process tweets.