Elixir Dependencies

I was going to write a dependency checker for Elixir using :digraph to model the dependencies.

However while trying to work out how to read the deps from a mix.exs file (without parsing it myself) I found an existing command.

mix deps.tree

This solved the problem that I had, namely identifying why a given dependency is used.

This has a useful switch, which combined with a graphviz utility:

mix deps.tree --format dot && dot -Tpng deps_tree.dot -o deps_tree.png

I updated the phoenix generator and built a simple phoenix, naturally called Fawkes.

This is the dependency tree: