Usage

User defined Functions can be used in any expression or predicate, just like built-in functions.

Procedures can be called stand-alone with CALL procedure.name();

But you can also integrate them into your Cypher statements which makes them so much more powerful.

Load JSON example

WITH 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neo4j-contrib/neo4j-apoc-procedures/core/4.1/src/test/resources/person.json' AS url

CALL apoc.load.json(url) YIELD value as person

MERGE (p:Person {name:person.name})
   ON CREATE SET p.age = person.age, p.children = size(person.children)