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Hex

Package manager for the Erlang ecosystem
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What is Hex?

Hex is package manager for the Erlang VM. This project currently provides tasks that integrate with Mix, Elixir's build tool.
Hex is a tool in the Package Managers category of a tech stack.
Hex is an open source tool with 937 GitHub stars and 181 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Hex's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Hex?

Companies
6 companies reportedly use Hex in their tech stacks, including Hacker Experience, inkl, and Cinch Financial.

Developers
23 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Hex.

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Hex Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Hex?
NuGet
A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.
RubyGems
It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.
Bower
Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.
Terraform Registry
With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.
Meteor
A Meteor application is a mix of JavaScript that runs inside a client web browser, JavaScript that runs on the Meteor server inside a Node.js container, and all the supporting HTML fragments, CSS rules, and static assets.
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