G - Other useful tools - The Rust Programming Language

# G - Other useful tools

In this appendix, we'll talk about some additional tools that are provided by the Rust project, and are useful when developing Rust code.

## Automatic formatting with `rustfmt`

`rustfmt` is a tool that can re-format your code according to community norms. Many projects use `rustfmt` to prevent arguments about which style to use when writing Rust: just do what the tool does!

`rustfmt` is not at 1.0 yet, but a preview is available for you to use in the meantime. Please give it a try and let us know how it goes!

To install `rustfmt`:

    $ rustup component add rustfmt-preview

This will give you both `rustfmt` and `cargo-fmt`, similar to how Rust gives you both `rustc` and `cargo`. To take any Cargo project and format it:

    $ cargo fmt

## IDE integration with the Rust Language Server

To help IDE integration, the Rust project distributes `rls`, the Rust Language Server, as in http://langserver.org/. This can be used by different clients, such as the Rust plugin for Visual Studio: Code.

The `rls` is not at 1.0 yet, but a preview is available for you to use in the meantime. Please give it a try and let us know how it goes!

To install the `rls`:

    $ rustup component add rls-preview

Then, install the language server support in your particular IDE, and it should all work.