Internals

Logos' core functionalities are split across four crates:

• logos is the main crate, that you add to your project (in Cargo.toml) to obtain the Logos derive macro. The public API is limited to this crate, and most users should only use this crate, not the others.
• logos-derive is a very simply but necessary crate to expose logos-codegen's code as a derive macro.
• logos-codegen contains the most technical parts of Logos: the code that reads you tokens definition, and generates optimized code to create blazingly fast lexers. You can read a blog post from the author of Logos to get a small insight of what the logos-codegen crate does. In the future, we hope to provide more documents about how this crate works, so people are more likely to understand it and improve it with pull requests (see the Contributing section).
• logos-cli is a separate crate, that installs a binary of the same name, and allows to expand the Logos derive macro into code. It can be installed with cargo install logos-cli, and usage help can be obtained through the logos-cli --help command. This tool can be useful if your tokens definition stays is constant, and you want to reduce compilatio time overhead caused by derive macros.