It’s a bit more complicated with mix.exs because unlike node’s package.json it’s not a structured file format (i. e. XML or JSON) which makes parsing and modifying it much harder.
Not only that, but It doesn’t even necessarily follow the same patterns for each project. While it is common to have a private deps/0 function as part of a MyApp.Mixfile module, one could decide to go about things in a completely different way.
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