A list of useful, fundamental, popular and ergonomic rust libraries

Essential Features

• Rand (Random number generation)

• Regex (Regex matching)

Macros

• Derive Builder (Derive macros to implement the builder pattern)

• Strum (Enum and String macros)

• Validator (Struct field validation)

• Variantly (Derive useful Option-like methods for enums)

• Derive More (More derive macros)

• Fake (Alternative to Fakeit with derive macros)

Popular

• Clap (Comprehensive CLI argument parsing)

• Reqwest (Async/Sync HTTP client)

• SQLx (Simple async database library)

• Serde JSON (JSON support for serde)

• Serde (Derive macros for struct serialization)

• Tokio (Popular async runtime for rust)

• Tracing Subscriber (Logging Utilities integrating with Tracing)

• Tracing (Comprehensive Logging)

Utilities

• Better Panic (Makes panics more readable)

• Fakeit (Fake data generation for testing)

• Itertools (Iterator utilities)

• Pretty Assertions (Make assertion look better)