Mix is the Swiss-army knife of the Elixir tools. It's used to compile and run your application, manage your dependencies, run tests, and even for profiling your code. You can see which Mix tasks are available by typing mix help in your terminal. We won't explain its usage here, since the next chapter's purpose is to show you how you can use Mix to create and maintain an Elixir project.
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