This repository is based on the GRANDstack Starter Platform for building an application using Neo4j, Apollo, and GraphQL in an out-of-the-box fashion. The tool itself aims to facilitate the analysis of the IAB Europe framework as part of the expressiveness analysis for a Transparency Information Language.
Find the schema under transparency-analysis-platform/api/src/schema.graphql.
$ cd transparency-analysis-platform/ $ docker-compose up $ python extractors/import_iab_data\ v2.pyElias Grünewald
Apache License v2
This project is a starter for building a GRANDstack (GraphQL, React, Apollo, Neo4j Database) application. There are two components to the starter, the UI application (in React and Angular flavors) and the API app (GraphQL server).
You need a Neo4j instance, e.g. a Neo4j Sandbox, a local instance via Neo4j Desktop, Docker or a Neo4j instance on AWS, Azure or GCP or Neo4j Cloud
For schemas using the @cypher directive (as in this repo) via neo4j-graphql-js, you need to have the APOC library installed, which should be automatic in Sandbox, Cloud and is a single click install in Neo4j Desktop. If when using the Sandbox / cloud you encounter an issue where an error similar to Can not be converted to long: org.neo4j.kernel.impl.core.NodeProxy, Location: [object Object], Path: users appears in the console when running the React app, try installing and using Neo4j locally instead.
A good tutorial can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPC71lUhK_I
- Download Neo4j Desktop
- Install and open Neo4j Desktop.
- Create a new DB by clicking "New Graph", and clicking "create local graph".
- Set password to "letmein" (as suggested by
api/.env), and click "Create". - Make sure that the default credentials in
api/.envare used. Leave them as follows:NEO4J_URI=bolt://localhost:7687 NEO4J_USER=neo4j NEO4J_PASSWORD=letmein - Click "Manage".
- Click "Plugins".
- Find "APOC" and click "Install".
- Click the "play" button at the top of left the screen, which should start the server. (screenshot 2)
- Wait until it says "RUNNING".
- Proceed forward with the rest of the tutorial.
Install dependencies
(cd ./ui-react && npm install) (cd ./ui-angular && npm install) (cd ./api && npm install) Start API server
cd ./api && npm start This will start the GraphQL API in the foreground, so in another terminal session start the React UI development server:
Start the React UI server
cd ./ui-react && npm start A UI built with Angular, Apollo and the Clarity Design System is also available.
Start the Angular UI server
cd ./ui-angular && npm start See the project releases for the changelog.
Zeit Now v2 can be used with monorepos such as grand-stack-starter. now.json defines the configuration for deploying with Zeit Now v2.
- Set the now secrets for your Neo4j instance:
now secret add NEO4J_URI bolt+routing://<YOUR_NEO4J_INSTANCE_HERE> now secret add NEO4J_USER <YOUR_DATABASE_USERNAME_HERE> now secret add NEO4J_PASSWORD <YOUR_DATABASE_USER_PASSWORD_HERE> - Run
now
- Run
nowin/apiand choosepackage.jsonwhen prompted. - Set
REACT_APP_GRAPHQL_APIbased on the API deployment URL from step 1 inui-react/.env - Run
nowin/envand choosepackage.jsonwhen prompted.
You can quickly start via:
docker-compose up -d If you want to load the example DB after the services have been started:
docker-compose run api npm run seedDb This project is licensed under the Apache License v2. Copyright (c) 2018 Neo4j, Inc.


