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Yufrend
Yufrend

Reputation: 123

Edit project dependencies directly

I wonder, where are the deps stored in my applications?

Do I have the chance to change them directly in my applications?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1074

Answers (2)

Sheharyar
Sheharyar

Reputation: 75750

As matov mentioned in his answer, the dependencies are stored in the deps/ directory in the root of your project, and though it is not recommended, you can edit them.

This is okay when you quickly want to try out some changes in your dependencies, but after you do edit them, remember to recompile them (they are not autmatically recompiled):

mix deps.compile

But once you refetch dependencies, your changes will be lost. So, if you plan on keeping them, you can still edit the dependencies and go with one of these options:

  1. Fork the repository on github, apply your changes there and point your mix.exs file to use that:

    {:some_dep, git: "https://github.com/org/some_dep.git", tag: "0.1"}

  2. You can put them in a separate directory (outside your project) and give mix the path:

    {:some_dep, path: "path/to/some_dep"}

  3. If it's not an Elixir Application (with configs, etc.) and just a bunch of helper modules, you can also directly just move the code to lib/some_dep in your source code and remove it from dependencies.

Upvotes: 5

Máté
Máté

Reputation: 2345

Your dependencies will be stored under a folder called deps which is located in your application directory. It's not advised to changed them there though, but you can certainly have a fork of them on Github and load them in via that way.

Upvotes: 1

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