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Define the dependency graph

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Define the dependency graph

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- [Instructor] When I first heard of the GitHub dependency graph, which is a visual representation of the relationships between different components, in other words, dependencies. Dependency graph is essentially a software bill of materials, specifically listing all of your dependencies. You can see the dependencies in your application, and then you can see dependence. So you can see bidirectionally where your dependencies are. Now, what I had started to say is when I first heard of the dependency graph and then saw it, I was a little confused. I thought it was like a graph database where you literally see a visualization. It's not really necessary number one. They do mean it that way, that notion of that relationship between nodes. In other words, you've got your dependencies and they may have dependencies and dependence and so on and so forth. So the dependency graph in short, is an easy way to quickly report on the library's frameworks and other dependencies, how they're connected…

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