Require local package in mix.exs

In Elixir as you are writing your application it is recommended to split parts of it into smaller applications (also can be called micro-services if you want to be buzzword compliant).

You don't however need to publish those dependencies to the Hex package manager in order to load them, instead you can use the path argument when defining a dependency.

In this example we have our main application Foo and in the directory above it we have an application called Bar.

To make the Bar module available in Foo we can do it like so:

mix.exs

defp deps do
  [
    {:bar, path: "../bar"},
  ]
end