Get desktop notifications for your cargo build commands
Cargo notify is a cargo plugin to run cargo build-like commands(check, build) and notify users of build completion and number of errors found (if any) through desktop notifications. Pairs nicely with cargo-watch.
cargo install --git https://github.com/nikhilmitrax/cargo-notify
The usual development workflow to notice errors in builds is to run (RLS/rust-analyzer) in the IDE, and potentially use carg-watch to run check/build on file change. This works fairly well for small or medium sized projects, but can get a bit cumbersome for larger projects, where the compile time may be longer than a few seconds, at which point, getting a notification is useful.
cargo notify <cmd>.
For example
cargo notify checkcargo watch -c -x 'notify check'
Any contributions are welcome, but here are a few ideas I hope someone would explore.
Remove vendorized Done! cargo_metadata and use the crate directly: The last time I tried using it, there were some problems, and I decided to vendorize and modify it to get going, but maybe we should directly use the crate, and create issues in cargo_metadata’s repo if it isn’t usable as is.
Cross Platform Support: Currently tested and found working on MacOS, but the underlying notification crate notify-rust supports BSD and Linux as well, just that it’s untested on Linux and BSD.
Support for richer notifications: It currently notifies just the number of errors during compilation. It could potentially support richer notifications.