Rust Helper

A macOS app for managing multiple Rust projects. Scan your workspace, clean build artifacts, check dependencies, run audits, and monitor project health—all from one place.

Features

• Project Discovery - Auto-scan ~/Workspace for Rust projects, add others manually
• Build Cleanup - View target/ sizes, clean all or debug-only builds, see space reclaimed
• Dependency Management - Check outdated deps across projects, optionally update Cargo.toml
• Security Audits - Run cargo audit across all projects, view vulnerabilities by severity
• Health Checks - Run cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy, cargo test per-project or globally
• Dependency Analysis - Find most-used crates, version mismatches, alignment opportunities
• Toolchain Consistency - Compare rust-toolchain.toml across projects, check MSRV
• License Compliance - Aggregate license usage, flag problematic licenses
• Auto-Refresh - Background monitoring with notifications for new issues

Tech Stack

Frontend:

• React 19
• Vite 7
• TypeScript
• Phosphor Icons

Backend (Tauri):

• Tauri v2
• tokio (async runtime)
• walkdir (directory scanning)
• serde/serde_json (serialization)
• anyhow (error handling)

Prerequisites

• Rust (1.70+)
• Node.js (20+)
• Cargo tools:

  cargo install cargo-outdated cargo-audit cargo-license cargo-edit

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run in development mode
npm run tauri dev

# Build for production
npm run tauri build

How It Works

1. Scan - Recursively searches directories for Cargo.toml files
2. Index - Parses each project's manifest, extracts metadata (name, version, deps)
3. Analyze - Runs cargo subcommands in parallel across projects
4. Report - Aggregates results and displays in the UI
5. Act - User can clean, update, or run checks from the UI