This weekly newsletter from Neo4j discusses recent news and developments in the graph database community, including a screencast demonstrating the GRANDstack starter kit for building full stack applications with GraphQL, React, Apollo and Neo4j, the release of a new version of the Py2neo Python driver library, and several blog posts about loading external data into Neo4j from APIs, Powershell documentation, and the Lightning payment network.

1. This Week in Neo4j
9th June 2018

2. Mark Needham
Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
mark.needham@neo4j.com / devrel@neo4j.com
@markhneedham
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3. The week's graph database news
in one handy slide deck!
Find the archive at
neo4j.com/tag/twin4j

4. Featured community member: Dirk Mahler
Learn more about Dirk

5. Will Lyon recorded a screencast in which he shows how to
build and deploy a full stack application using the
GRANDstack (GraphQL, React, Apollo, Neo4j Database)
starter kit.
Hands On With The GRANDstack Starter Project
Watch the screencast

6. Py2neo v4: The Next Generation
Read the release blog post
This week Nigel Small released v4 of Py2neo, a client library
and toolkit for working with Neo4j from within Python
applications and from the command line. This version of
the library wraps the 1.6 release of the official Python
driver, which means that Py2neo can now
focus on higher-level features and proper
Pythonic API and integrations.

7. Lightning Network Graph
Read the blog post
The Lightning network is a decentralized network using
smart contract functionality in the blockchain, and
bluetegu has written a blog post showing how to export a
node’s local view of the network
topology into Neo4j.

8. Neo4j’s customer success team have written an article that
shows how to utilize the Zendesk API to load data from
Zendesk into Neo4j, specifically data about users who have
chosen to subscribe or follow Knowledge
Base sections. They use the Load JSON
procedure from the APOC library to do so.
Importing JSON APIs #1: ZenDesk
Read the KB article

9. I’ve also written a blog post showing how to paginate
through Strava’s API and load the data into Neo4j using the
APOC Periodic Commit and Load JSON procedures. No
scripting language in sight!
Importing JSON APIs #2: Strava
Read the blog post

10. Graph all the Powershell things
Read the blog post
Glenn Sarti wrote a blog post explaining how to use
Powershell with Neo4j. He goes extremely meta and shows
how to create a Neo4j graph of the Powershell help
documents using Powershell!

11. GraphAware turn 5!
Learn about GraphAware
Neo4j Solution Partner GraphAware turned 5 this week.
Happy Birthday and thanks for all the work you do in the
Neo4j community!

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This Week in Neo4j - 9th June 2018