I've been using Zed for a while, but I want to be able to run Zed fully independently without connecting to Zed's servers. After reading through a lot of issues at the zed repository I found a Go implementation of this by Praktisk. I really liked his implementation but I'm not all that good with Go, and since Zed was written in Rust I figured I'd write this in rust as well. In addition to wanting to learn rust better. As such I made this over the weekend. A lot of the heavy lifting was made by Praktisk and I'd probably never do this if he hadn't already done a lot of the dirty work in figuring out how Zed uses API calls

# Download all extensions
zedex get all-extensions

# Start a local server on the default port (2654)
zedex serve

# Alternatively to use zedex as a proxy
zedex serve --proxy-mode

# Start a local server on a custom host and port
zedex serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080

# Download a specific extension
zedex get extension extension-id-here

# Fetch the extension index
zedex get extension-index

# Get the latest release for the autoupdate check when you launch zed
zedex release download

# Get the latest zed-remote-server releases
zexex release download-remote-server

# Show available commands and options
zedex --help

To configure Zed to use your local server, add this to your Zed config:

{
  "server_url": "http://127.0.0.1:2654"
}

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/zedex.git
cd zedex

# Build the project
cargo build --release

# Run the binary
./target/release/zedex --help

This repository currently targets Rust 2024, so you need a nightly toolchain until the edition stabilises. Recommended workflow:

rustup toolchain install nightly
rustup component add rustfmt clippy --toolchain nightly

# Format / test with nightly
cargo +nightly fmt
cargo +nightly test

Some dependencies (e.g. reqwest via openssl-sys) require native OpenSSL headers. On Debian/Ubuntu, install them with:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y pkg-config libssl-dev

• Support updating extensions by the call Zed makes on startup
• Release notes mirror as in praktisk's implementation
• Better error handling for network issues
• Add caching layer for frequently accessed extensions