The Elixir documentation generator tool ex_doc
doesn't accept a mix.exs
file as a configuration file
(probably because you can't compile it without editing it). This script opens the local mix.exs
file,
reads all the necessary portions, and finds some other info, and then prints out all the necessary
ex_doc
options to a config file.
This allows you to autogenerate docs without doing any (repetitive) lifting. If you have a whole bunch of projects,