This Week in Neo4j – Flask User Auth, COVID-19: The Effect of the Seasons, GDS Graph Embeddings


Hi graph gang,

In this week’s video, Will Lyon introduces GraphQL Architect, a Neo4j Graph App for building and deploying GraphQL APIs.

Stefan Dreverman builds the UI-‘engine’ in the low code platform, Rik Van Bruggen explains what Recommender Systems and Contact Tracing have in common, and Mahjoub Saifeddine builds a basic web crawler using Go and Neo4j.

And finally, Josh Thurston has written a tutorial showing how to use Neo4j with Python’s popular Flask web application framework.

Cheers, Mark, Karin, and the Developer Relations team


This week’s featured community member is Koji Annoura, Chief Technology Officer at UTI,Inc.

Koji Annoura - This Week’s Featured Community Member

Koji Annoura – This Week’s Featured Community Member

Koji is one of the most notable Neo4j community members to date. He’s been in the Neo4j community for years and he’s proven his relentless dedication to the graph database community through his on-going consistency of involvement.

Koji participates in pretty much everything. He is a Neo4j Certified Professional who started the local Neo4j meetup group in Tokyo, a featured speaker as part of the Neo4j Speaker Program, hosted events for Global Graph Celebration Day, helped fellow community members with technical problems through his participation in the Neo4j Ninja program, hacked during GraphHack on a COVID exposure tracker dataset, and attended many GraphConnect conferences, webinars, and trainings.

Koji stands out not only because of his enthusiasm for getting involved in every activity, but also the length of time that he’s been committed to doing so, and always to the highest extent.

Koji, you’re the model example of an exceptional community contributor and we’re so proud to say you’re part of our community!

Thank you for all that you do!

Building A GRANDstack Real Estate Search App: Part 3 | Geospatial Data With GraphQL


This week’s video is part of a series by Will Lyon showing how to build a GRANDstack Real Estate Search App.



In the third video, Will continues with geospatial data and introduces GraphQL Architect, a Neo4j Graph App for building and deploying GraphQL APIs.

In other GraphQL news:

    • Preet Kanwar started a series of blog posts showing how to build a GraphQL API with Spring Boot, Neo4j, and Kong. In the first post, Preet introduces GraphQL and shows how we can combine GraphQL’s Schema Definition Language with Spring Boot.
    • Davey Brown shared idenavoice, a solution to online voting based on the GRANDstack.
    • João Esperancinha shows how to handle data related to a hypothetical list of investigator cases using the GRANDstack.

COVID19: The Effect of the Seasons


#BuildForCovid19 is a platform that aims to defeat COVID-19 with hackathons.

One of these hackathons, The Effects of the Seasons, has started a proof of concept using the spaCy library to extract sentence structure from COVID-19 documents and analyse the results in Neo4j.

Read the blog post

Building a low-code platform with Neo4j: Frames and Views


Stefan Dreverman continues his series of blog posts showing how to build a low-code platform with Neo4j.

In part 3, Stefan builds the UI-‘engine’ of the platform that lets (low-code) developers and end-users actually use the platform.

Building a web crawler, GDS Graph Embeddings, SDN/RX 1.1.1


Flask User Auth with Neo4j


Josh Thurston has written a tutorial showing how to use Neo4j with Python’s popular Flask web application framework.

Josh builds registration and profile pages for a graph backed web application, showing code snippets as he walks through each component.

Tweet of the Week


My favourite tweet this week was by Paula González:

Don’t forget to RT if you liked it too!