Neo4j Movies Application: Quick Start

The Stack

These are the components of our Web Application:

• Application Type: .NET Core Application.

• Web framework: ASP.NET core

• Neo4j Database Connector: Neo4j .NET Driver for working with Cypher

  • Driver docs

  • Cypher docs

• Database: Neo4j-Server 3.5, 4.X/5.X with multi-database

• Frontend: jquery, bootstrap, d3.js

Provision a database quickly with Neo4j Sandbox or Neo4j Aura.

Endpoints:

Get Movie

// JSON object for single movie with cast
curl http://BASE_URL/movie/The%20Matrix

// list of JSON objects for movie search results
curl http://BASE_URL/search?q=matrix

// JSON object for whole graph viz (nodes, links - arrays)
curl http://BASE_URL/graph

Setup

This uses the ASP.NET core framework, along with the official Neo4j .NET driver.

Run:

Start this application with:

dotnet run

Go to http://localhost:8080

You can search for movies by title or and click on any entry.

Configuration options

Note	These are preferably configured via Properties/launchSettings.json.

Environment variable name	Default value (or N/A)
PORT	8080
NEO4J_URI	neo4j+s://demo.neo4jlabs.com
NEO4J_USER	movies
NEO4J_PASSWORD	movies
NEO4J_DATABASE	movies
NEO4J_VERSION	4

Please set NEO4J_VERSION to 3.5 when running Neo4j 3.5.x. Leave as is otherwise.

To run the database locally as well, start your local Neo4j Server (Download & Install), open Neo4j Browser. Then install the Movies data-set with :play movies, click the statement, and hit the triangular "Run" button.

Then, override the relevant environment variables above.