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shards — Dependency management tool for the Crystal language. More information: <https://crystal-lang.org/ref

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Problem

How to use the shards command: Dependency management tool for the Crystal language. More information: <https://crystal-lang.org/reference/the_shards_command>.

Solution

shards — Dependency management tool for the Crystal language. More information: <https://crystal-lang.org/reference/the_shards_command>.

Create a skeleton shard.yml file:

shards init

Install dependencies from a shard.yml file:

shards install

Update all dependencies:

shards update

List all installed dependencies:

shards list

Display version of dependency:

shards version {{path/to/dependency_directory}}

Code Snippets

Create a skeleton `shard.yml` file

shards init

Install dependencies from a `shard.yml` file

shards install

Update all dependencies

shards update

List all installed dependencies

shards list

Display version of dependency

shards version {{path/to/dependency_directory}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/shards

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