How deeply does Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches cover cargo add?

Defines the command, its manifest effect, and subsequent download behavior without detailing dependency resolution internals.

Cargo add

As explained in Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches

cargo add is a Cargo command that adds an external crate dependency to a package manifest.

cargo add is a Cargo command for adding an external crate dependency to a Rust package's Cargo.toml file. section 16.5.1

Adding rand

From a Cargo project, run cargo add rand. Cargo adds rand under [dependencies]. The next cargo run downloads the needed code and makes the crate available to the program. section 16.5.1 section 18.1.2

[package]
name = "rust_book"
version = "0.1.0"
authors = ["David MacLeod"]
edition = "2021"
 
# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
 
[dependencies]
rand = "0.8.5"

Shows the Cargo.toml dependency entry produced for rand. section 16.5.1

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