Family tree a web app that allows user to build their family tree. Users will be able to add more family members to the tree, add information about them, and even create a timeline depicting a person's journey through life. Users will also be able to invite other family members to view or edit their tree, to export the tree or to share a link to it.
This project is in active development.
- Laravel 6.*
- Neo4j graph database - a native graph database
- Neovis.js - Graph visualizations library powered by vis.js with data from Neo4j
- Graphaware PHP Client for Neo4j
- Fork this repo
- Clone it to your own computer
- Install Neo4j Desktop
- Create a new project in Neo4j Desktop and create a new local graph. Once the graph is running, click on the Neo4j Browser. Refer to the Neo4j documentation for more instructions about how to use Neo4j.
- The current branch in development is
mes/neo4j. Check it out in your terminal to have access to the latest code. - Create your
.envfile and make sure you add the correct username and password for your Neo4j and your mySQL databases - Run
php artisan seedSomeDatain your terminal to seed your graph database with the initial test data - You can now see this test data in the Neo4j Browser
The graph database is currently seeded by running the php artisan seedSomeData command.
The function createPerson($name) creates a new person, inserts it into Eloquent and Neo4j, and creates a link between these two databases through the id.
In the handle() method, we created an array of random people $names, and run foreach on this array so that every person in this array becomes a new person in the databases, and a $cypher variable, which is a string of cypher queries that creates various relationships between the people.
When we run the seedSomeData command, the handle() method will run, all people in the $names array will be created together with their relationships.
This way of seeding the database is just temporary while we are working on other aspects of the app.
This project is in active development and we are figuring it out as we go. If you would like to contrigute, please create an issue or submit a pull request.
We welcome any help and suggestions!
We will remove Neovis.js and replace it with Vis.js since Neovis.js exposes database credentials in the code and we haven't found a way to go around it yet.
The development of Family Tree is currently being live-streamed on Matt Stauffer's streaming channels. We are streaming (almost) every Monday at 2.45pm eastern time (7.45pm GMT).