Trunk is a tool that allow you to build web apps using Rust and webassembly, including compiling scss, and distributing other assets.

Being a more specialized tool, it comes with some constraints that must be noted when using it in combination with crane:

  • Your Toolchain must have the wasm32-unknown-unknown target installed (See: Custom toolchain)
  • For craneLib.buildDepsOnly to work you will need to set the build target (See: API Reference)
  • craneLib.filterCargoSources will remove html, css, your assets folder, so you need to modify the source filtering function (See: Source filtering)
  • You will need to set wasm-bindgen-cli to a version that matches your Cargo.lock file. (See examples)

For a quick-start run the following in a fresh directory:

nix flake init -t github:ipetkov/crane#trunk

Alternatively, if you have an existing project already, copy and paste the following flake.nix:

{ description = "Build a cargo project"; inputs = { nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable"; crane.url = "github:ipetkov/crane"; flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils"; rust-overlay = { url = "github:oxalica/rust-overlay"; inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs"; }; }; outputs = { self, nixpkgs, crane, flake-utils, rust-overlay, ... }: flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system: let pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; overlays = [ (import rust-overlay) ]; }; inherit (pkgs) lib; rustToolchainFor = p: p.rust-bin.stable.latest.default.override { # Set the build targets supported by the toolchain, # wasm32-unknown-unknown is required for trunk targets = [ "wasm32-unknown-unknown" ]; }; craneLib = (crane.mkLib pkgs).overrideToolchain rustToolchainFor; # When filtering sources, we want to allow assets other than .rs files unfilteredRoot = ./.; # The original, unfiltered source src = lib.fileset.toSource { root = unfilteredRoot; fileset = lib.fileset.unions [ # Default files from crane (Rust and cargo files) (craneLib.fileset.commonCargoSources unfilteredRoot) (lib.fileset.fileFilter (file: lib.any file.hasExt [ "html" "scss" ]) unfilteredRoot ) # Example of a folder for images, icons, etc (lib.fileset.maybeMissing ./assets) ]; }; # Common arguments can be set here to avoid repeating them later commonArgs = { inherit src; strictDeps = true; # We must force the target, otherwise cargo will attempt to use your native target CARGO_BUILD_TARGET = "wasm32-unknown-unknown"; buildInputs = [ # Add additional build inputs here ] ++ lib.optionals pkgs.stdenv.isDarwin [ # Additional darwin specific inputs can be set here pkgs.libiconv ]; }; # Build *just* the cargo dependencies, so we can reuse # all of that work (e.g. via cachix) when running in CI cargoArtifacts = craneLib.buildDepsOnly (commonArgs // { # You cannot run cargo test on a wasm build doCheck = false; }); # Build the actual crate itself, reusing the dependency # artifacts from above. # This derivation is a directory you can put on a webserver. my-app = craneLib.buildTrunkPackage (commonArgs // { inherit cargoArtifacts; # The version of wasm-bindgen-cli here must match the one from Cargo.lock. # When updating to a new version replace the hash values with lib.fakeHash, # then try to do a build, which will fail but will print out the correct value # for `hash`. Replace the value and then repeat the process but this time the # printed value will be for the second `hash` below wasm-bindgen-cli = pkgs.buildWasmBindgenCli rec { src = pkgs.fetchCrate { pname = "wasm-bindgen-cli"; version = "0.2.100"; hash = "sha256-3RJzK7mkYFrs7C/WkhW9Rr4LdP5ofb2FdYGz1P7Uxog="; # hash = lib.fakeHash; }; cargoDeps = pkgs.rustPlatform.fetchCargoVendor { inherit src; inherit (src) pname version; hash = "sha256-qsO12332HSjWCVKtf1cUePWWb9IdYUmT+8OPj/XP2WE="; # hash = lib.fakeHash; }; }; }); # Quick example on how to serve the app, # This is just an example, not useful for production environments serve-app = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "serve-app" '' ${pkgs.python3Minimal}/bin/python3 -m http.server --directory ${my-app} 8000 ''; in { checks = { # Build the crate as part of `nix flake check` for convenience inherit my-app; # Run clippy (and deny all warnings) on the crate source, # again, reusing the dependency artifacts from above. # # Note that this is done as a separate derivation so that # we can block the CI if there are issues here, but not # prevent downstream consumers from building our crate by itself. my-app-clippy = craneLib.cargoClippy (commonArgs // { inherit cargoArtifacts; cargoClippyExtraArgs = "--all-targets -- --deny warnings"; }); # Check formatting my-app-fmt = craneLib.cargoFmt { inherit src; }; }; packages.default = my-app; apps.default = flake-utils.lib.mkApp { drv = serve-app; }; devShells.default = craneLib.devShell { # Inherit inputs from checks. checks = self.checks.${system}; # Additional dev-shell environment variables can be set directly # MY_CUSTOM_DEVELOPMENT_VAR = "something else"; # Extra inputs can be added here; cargo and rustc are provided by default. packages = [ pkgs.trunk ]; }; }); }