Elixir: How to cleanup dependencies from mix.lock

Write at 2020 Feb 14

Let’s say you add a new dependency to mix.exs, then run mix deps.get The dependency are recorded in mix.lock now. If you change your mind, and delete it from mix.exs. then it won’t automatically get remove from mix.lock. You have to explicitly ask mix to do that:

mix deps.clean --unused --unlock
mix deps.unlock dependency
mix deps.unlock --unused

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