Organizing large projects with workspaces

Creating a single project is easy: run cargo new my-crate and it's done. cargo creates everything from folder structure to a small source file (or unit test) in a breeze. However, what about larger projects consisting of multiple smaller crates and an executable? Or just a collection of related libraries? The cargo tool's answer to this is called workspaces.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create your own workspace to manage multiple projects:

1. In a Terminal window (Windows PowerShell or a Terminal on macOS/Linux), change to a directory that will hold the workspace by running these commands:

$ mkdir -p my-workspace
$ cd my-workspace

2. Use the cargo new command followed...