Neo4j Movies Example Application

Shamelessly modified from https://github.com/neo4j-examples/movies-go-cq

Stack

• Go
• Golang Neo4j Bolt Driver
• Neo4j-Server
• Frontend: jquery, bootstrap, d3.js

Endpoints:

Get Movie

# JSON object for single movie with cast
curl http://bolt-neo4j-movies.herokuapp.com/movie/The%20Matrix

# list of JSON objects for movie search results
curl http://bolt-neo4j-movies.herokuapp.com/search?q=matrix

# JSON object for whole graph viz (nodes, links - arrays)
curl http://bolt-neo4j-movies.herokuapp.com/graph

Setup

This uses the Go standard library HTTP server, along with the Golang Neo4j Bolt Driver library.

Run locally:

Start your local Neo4j Server Download & Install, open the Neo4j Browser. Then install the Movies data-set with :play movies, click the statement, and hit the triangular "Run" button.

Start this application with:

NEO4J_URL=bolt://localhost:7687/ PORT=8080 go run server.go

Go to http://localhost:8080

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

Deploy to Heroku

# create a new app with the go buildpack
heroku create -b https://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go.git

# Be sure to set your NEO4J_URL in the Heroku configs.
# I used GrapheneDB to host the Neo4j instance 

# push to heroku
git push heroku master