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Mix hex.info tells you about a package

Find out about the package called jason like this:

Terminal window
❯ mix hex.info jason
A blazing fast JSON parser and generator in pure Elixir.


Config: {:jason, "~> 1.4"}
Releases: 1.5.0-alpha.2, 1.5.0-alpha.1, 1.4.4, 1.4.3, 1.4.2, 1.4.1, 1.4.0, 1.3.0, ...


Licenses: Apache-2.0
Links:
  GitHub: https://github.com/michalmuskala/jason

This is super useful because it tells you what to write into the deps bit of your mix.exs file, in this case add {:jason, "~> 1.4"}. It also gives you the useful links, saving you going through a search.

mix help tells you all the tasks you have available.

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