biganth / neo4j-movies-template

This project contains a Node.js starter template for a Neo4j movies dataset.

README

This web app originally written by kbastani and theflipside. The API is built with Express 3 and the frontend is witten with React. Feel encouraged to fork and update this repo!

The Model

Nodes

• Movie
• Person
• Genre
• Keyword

Relationships

• (:Person)-[:ACTED_IN {role:"some role"}]->(:Movie)
• (:Person)-[:DIRECTED]->(:Movie)
• (:Person)-[:WRITER_OF]->(:Movie)
• (:Person)-[:PRODUCED]->(:Movie)
• (:MOVIE)-[:HAS_GENRE]->(:Genre)

The Data

Setting up the database

• Download Neo4j: http://neo4j.com/download/
• Verify that it worked by running the Neo4j browser: http://localhost:7474/browser/
• Assumning you are in the root directory, run the following import script to create a new database:

neo4j-import --into database/ --nodes:Person csv/person_node.csv --nodes:Movie csv/movie_node.csv --nodes:Genre csv/genre_node.csv --nodes:Keyword csv/keyword_node.csv --relationships:ACTED_IN csv/acted_in_rels.csv --relationships:DIRECTED csv/directed_rels.csv --relationships:HAS_GENRE csv/has_genre_rels.csv --relationships:HAS_KEYWORD csv/has_keyword_rels.csv --relationships:PRODUCED csv/produced_rels.csv --relationships:WRITER_OF csv/writer_of_rels.csv --delimiter ";" --array-delimiter "|" --id-type INTEGER

• Using the Neo4j GUI, select the database you just built, and run it!
• You should see a database populated with Movie, Genre, Keyword, and Person nodes.

API

Start the API by running node api/app.js

Look at the docs at http://localhost:3000/docs

• cd api
• npm install (if package.json changed)
• in config.js, update the neo4j-local and neo4j-remote URLs as needed
• node app.js starts the API
• Take a look at the docs at http://localhost:3000/docs

Front-end

Start the app with:

• cd web
• npm install (if package.json changed)
• bower install to install the styles
• copy config/settings.example.js to settings.js
• gulp (starts the app on http://localhost:4000/)