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# Useful crates

There is always new crates being released that can be useful in the development of command line applications.


## Crates referenced in this book

- [anyhow](https://crates.io/crates/anyhow) - provides `anyhow::Error` for easy error handling
- [assert_cmd](https://crates.io/crates/assert_cmd) - simplifies integration testing of CLIs
- [assert_fs](https://crates.io/crates/assert_fs) - Setup input files and test output files
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- [tokio](https://crates.io/crates/tokio) - asynchronous runtime
- [wasm-pack](https://crates.io/crates/wasm-pack) - tool for building WebAssembly


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To explain the differences between these crates: should this be done in this useful crates section, or should this be done in subsections?

This should be a subsection of "Other crates" if we include it


There are a few libraries for pretty-printing tables to the console:

- [cli-table](https://crates.io/crates/cli-table)
- [comfy-table](https://crates.io/crates/comfy-table)
- [prettytable](https://crates.io/crates/prettytable-rs)
- [tabled](https://crates.io/crates/tabled)
- [term-table](https://crates.io/crates/term-table)
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So far, we only list out crates we directly use. We might want to give more thought to how we would want t talk about relevant crates more generally.

Can you open an issue for us to discuss this before merging this?

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## Other crates

Due to the constantly-changing landscape of Rust crates, a good place to find crates is the [lib.rs](https://lib.rs) crate index.
Here are a few specific categories that might be useful for building CLI's:

- [Command-line interface](https://lib.rs/command-line-interface)
- [Configuration](https://lib.rs/config)
- [Database interfaces](https://lib.rs/database)
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