mix is a tool for managing Elixir projects and their dependencies. As programmers, we carefully mix different stuff (i.e. dependencies) to produce amazing elixirs (i.e. projects). A good analogy to remember.
mix tool ships by default with Elixir and it provides tasks for creating, compiling, testing, and deploying Elixir projects.
Some tasks are provided out of the box by mix. You can also create your own tasks to be run by mix using Elixir code. Let’s explore some of them.
mix help: This command lists all tasks and aliases available in mix and in your project.mix help <task>: Prints the documentation for a given task or alias.mix new your_awesome_elixir_project: Creates a new Elixir project named your_awesome_elixir_project. To find out more about this task, type mix help new. Get it?mix compile: Compiles the project.mix run: Runs the current application. It starts the current application dependencies and then the application itself. The application will be compiled if it has not been compiled yet or it is outdated.mix test: Runs tests for the project (present in test directory in the project).