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In NodeJS, all the packages installed by NPM are stored in the node_modules/ directory. Is there any such directory in Rust? Are the crates installed somewhere globally?
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The home crate provides an API for getting this location if you need this information inside your Rust crate. By default, the Cargo home is located in $HOME/. cargo/ .
The . cargo/bin directory of your home directory is the default location of Rust binaries. Not only the official binaries like rustup , rustc , cargo , rustfmt , rustdoc , rls and also the binaries you can install via cargo install command, will be stored in this directory.
Cargo is the Rust package manager. Cargo downloads your Rust package's dependencies, compiles your packages, makes distributable packages, and uploads them to crates.io, the Rust community's package registry.
Rust provides a powerful module system that can be used to hierarchically split code in logical units (modules), and manage visibility (public/private) between them. A module is a collection of items: functions, structs, traits, impl blocks, and even other modules.
Crates are installed globally for the current user, not per project. Currently, they are stored in <user directory>/.cargo/registry.
/Users/<username>/.cargo/registry
$HOME/.cargo/registry
\Users\<username>\.cargo\registry
There is an RFC in progress to standardise this, and use the location that users of each platform would more likely expect.
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