cargo-generate ☆

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Description:
Use pre-existing git repositories as templates

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 0.23.7@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: rust scaffolding cli developer-tools templates

Install: brew install cargo-generate

About:
cargo-generate is a Rust CLI tool that scaffolds new projects using pre-existing Git repositories as templates. It allows developers to quickly bootstrap applications, libraries, or modules by cloning remote or local templates and optionally replacing template variables. This significantly speeds up project setup and ensures consistency across projects.

Key Features:

Template-based scaffolding from Git repositories
Variable replacement using the Tera templating engine
Support for local and remote templates
Fast and extensible with Rust

Use Cases:

Bootstrapping new Rust crates with a predefined structure
Standardizing project layouts across a development team
Creating microservice templates with pre-configured CI/CD

Alternatives:

hygen – hygen is JavaScript-based and focuses on code generation within existing projects, whereas cargo-generate is Rust-native and excels at creating entire new project structures from Git templates.
Yeoman – Yeoman is a general-purpose generator system that requires writing generators in JavaScript, while cargo-generate uses simple Git repos and is tailored for the Rust ecosystem.

License: Apache-2.0 OR MIT

Dependencies: libgit2, libssh2, openssl@3

Bottles available for: arm64_tahoe, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, sonoma, arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Dec 28, 2024 2:13am		0	VERSION_BUMP	3c4cf114
Nov 17, 2024 8:34pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	1ea9c982