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cargo-generate

v0.23.7 Growing

cargo, make me a project

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 314 crates
  • !Heavy dependency tree (40 direct deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
1.9M
Dependents
314
Releases
65
Size
120KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

89.3K downloads in the last 30 days (3.0K/day), up 10% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

314 crates depend on cargo-generate. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 7+ years old, cargo-generate hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Heavy dependency tree

40 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include cargo-leptos, dioxus-cli, beaker, cargo-tangle, ftw. When high-quality crates choose cargo-generate, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 13/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 12/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 8/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 10/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
3K/day avg+48%
01K2K3K4K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.22.1
47%
v0.21.3
18%
v0.18.3
12%
v0.19.0
12%
v0.23.3
12%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["vendored-libgit2"]

vendored-libgit2*vendored-openssl

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
40
direct dependencies
Dependents
314
crates depend on cargo-generate