============================ Neo4j Movie Website Template

This repository is a movie content browser powered by Neo4j. All movie content is consumed from a Neo4j REST API endpoint built using Neo4j Swagger.

##Tools:

Architecture

Front-end web-based dashboard in Node.js and Bootstrap
REST API via Neo4j Swagger in Node.js
Data import services in Node.js
Data storage in a Neo4j graph database

Getting Started

If you haven’t done so already, download or clone this repository and navigate to it using your Terminal (if on a Mac) or command line.

Setting up Node.js

If you’ve never used node, this is a good first step as it verifies you have the correct libraries for running the web application.

From the terminal, go to the web directory of the project and run npm install, after node_modules are installed, run node app. The movies website will be started at http://localhost:5000
Install Node.js either via homebrew using brew install node or directly from http://nodejs.org/
Navigate to the api and web folders and install dependencies running npm install in each.
Navigate to the web folder and run node app.js
Take a look at http://localhost:5000/
If you see some awesome movies there, success! :D

Setting up Neo4j

Installation

So Node.js is set up and you can see the boilerplate Movies application running on http://localhost:5000/, great. Now we want to set up an instance of Neo4j locally so we can look at and modify the data.

Download Neo4j here
Extract Neo4j to a convenient location and rename the folder to something less cumbersome, like ‘Neo4j’, if you want
Navigate to the extracted folder and run ./bin/neo4j start
If all goes well, you should see the Neo4j web application running at http://localhost:7474/

Adding the Movie data

Right now your Neo4j Database does not contain the Movie data. Let’s fix that.

Navigate to your Neo4j directory
If you have Neo4j running, stop it with ./bin/neo4j stop in the Neo4j directory
If you want to make sure you killed it good, check by running launchctl list | grep neo and launchctl remove any processes that might be listed
If you ls data, you’ll see a file called graph.db.
Delete the existing graph.db.
Grab the zipped movies graph database file from the databases folder in the web app
Unzip it into the data folder
Run Neo4j! You should be able to see some nodes at http://localhost:7474/

Setting up Swagger

You can see the demonstration web app is GETing information about movies and people from http://movieapi-neo4j.herokuapp.com. However, we want to be able to run the web application locally or from another server.

Learn more about Swagger.

Putting it all together

First, let's make a change to our local database so we know which database we're looking at.

Run the following query:

MATCH (n:Movie) WHERE n.`title` = 'The Matrix' SET n.rated = 'awesome' RETURN n

Swagger

Open to the api/neo4j/cypher.js file. You’ll see:

var neo4j = require('neo4j'),
    db = new neo4j.GraphDatabase('http://162.243.116.40/'),
    //db = new neo4j.GraphDatabase('http://neo4jmovies_backup:s85HZuuCPlaS6T6y7H8f@neo4jmoviesbackup.sb01.stations.graphenedb.com:24789/'),
    //db = new neo4j.GraphDatabase('http://localhost:7474/'),
    _ = require('underscore')
;

Replace the above with:

var neo4j = require('neo4j'),
    db = new neo4j.GraphDatabase('http://localhost:7474/'),
    _ = require('underscore')
;

In the api/app.js file, change BASE_URL to http://localhost:3000

From your parent directory, run node api/app.js to get Swagger started.

Head on over to http://localhost:3000/docs/, GET The Matrix you can do a search by title, for instance, and verify that this movie is now rated awesome.

The Frontend

Assuming you've set up the local backend correctly, the frontent is still pointed to a remote API.

Head on over to web/dist/assets/js/app.js and in the section below, point PATH_TO_API to your http://localhost:3000/docs/.

/* App Module */
var PATH_TO_API = 'http://movieapi-neo4j.herokuapp.com/api/v0/';
//var PATH_TO_API = 'http://localhost:3000/docs/'

Make sure whaveter database you're pointing at (whether a local one on port 7474 or a remote database) are running, and you've started your Swagger API with node api/app.js.

Again run node web/app.js in the neo4j-movies-template directory, and .\bin\neo4j start from your Neo4j directory, if it isn’t already running.

Verify that The Matrix is indeed rated awesome, and have fun.

Kangcor/Anansi