https://github.com/neo4j-examples/movies-golang-bolt
Neo4j Movies Example application with built-in HTTP server using the neo4j-go-driver
https://github.com/neo4j-examples/movies-golang-bolt
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Neo4j Movies Example application with built-in HTTP server using the neo4j-go-driver
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/neo4j-examples/movies-golang-bolt
- Owner: neo4j-examples
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2020-10-05T08:28:48.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-05-01T15:33:20.000Z (about 2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-05-08T01:42:32.862Z (about 2 months ago)
- Language: Go
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- Size: 87.9 KB
- Stars: 25
- Watchers: 10
- Forks: 12
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.adoc
- License: LICENSE
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README
== Neo4j Movies Application: Quick Start
image::https://github.com/neo4j-examples/movies-golang-bolt/workflows/Go/badge.svg[CI]
== The Stack
These are the components of our Web Application:
* Application Type: Go-Web Application
* Web framework: https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/[Built-in HTTP server]
* Neo4j Database Connector: https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j-go-driver[Neo4j Go Driver] for Cypher https://neo4j.com/developer/go[Docs]
* Database: Neo4j-Server (4.4 or later) with multi-database
* Frontend: jquery, bootstrap, https://d3js.org/[d3.js]
Provision a database quickly with https://sandbox.neo4j.com/?usecase=movies[Neo4j Sandbox] or https://neo4j.com/cloud/aura/[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 Go standard library HTTP server, along with the official Neo4j Go driver.
== Run:
Start this application with:
[source,shell]
----
go run server.go
----
Go to http://localhost:8080
You can search for movies by title or and click on any entry.
== Configuration options
[%header,cols=2*]
|===
|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
|===
To run the database locally as well, start your local Neo4j Server (https://neo4j.com/download[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.