Neo4j Browser

Explore the graph, one query at a time.

Neo4j Browser is Neo4j’s built-in client application, a mashup of a REPL, data visualization and lightweight IDE.

Goals

• developer focused

• every interaction is a demonstration

• uses only public APIs

• for modern browsers, with reasonable fallbacks

Development

Set up your environment

• Install node.js

• cd community/browser && npm install

  This installs npm modules needed to build the browser code.

• npm install -g grunt-cli

  This puts the grunt command on your path.

Run in development mode

• Run Neo4j server (from a downloaded distribution of Neo4j, or from your IDE)

• cd community/browser (this directory in the source tree)

• grunt server

  This listens on port 9000, serving up static documents, and forwarding other requests to Neo4j on port 7474. Any local changes to the browser code will be applied immediatley by reloading the page.

Feedback

• Andreas Kollegger - questions or comments? send an email to me

Adding a new Cypher keyword

Look at:

• Detecting Cypher: app/scripts/init/commandInterpreters.coffee

• app/components/cypher/index.js

• app/scripts/codemirror-cypher.coffee