neodash

NeoDash - Neo4j Dashboard Builder

NeoDash is an open source tool for visualizing your Neo4j data. It lets you group visualizations together as dashboards, and allow for interactions between reports.

Neodash supports presenting your data as tables, graphs, bar charts, line charts, maps and more. It contains a Cypher editor to directly write the Cypher queries that populate the reports. You can save dashboards to your database, and share them with others.

Running NeoDash

There are three ways to run the application:

1. You can install NeoDash into Neo4j Desktop from the graph app gallery. NeoDash will automatically connect to your active database.
2. You can run NeoDash from a web browser by visiting http://neodash.graphapp.io.
3. For offline deployments, you can build the application yourself. See the developer guide below.

Developer Guide

Run & Build

NeoDash is built with React. You'll need npm installed to run the web app.

To run the application in development mode:

• clone this repository.
• open a terminal and navigate to the directory you just cloned.
• execute npm install to install the necessary dependencies.
• execute npm run dev to run the app in development mode.
• the application should be available at http://localhost:3000.

To build the app for production:

• follow the steps above to clone the repository and install dependencies.
• execute npm run build. This will create a build folder in your project directory.
• deploy the contents of the build folder to a web server. You should then be able to run the web app.

Extending NeoDash

As of v2.0, NeoDash is easy to extend with your own visualizations. There are two steps to take to plug in your own charts:

1. Create the React component

All NeoDash charts implement the interface defined in src/charts/Chart.tsx. A custom chart must do the same. the following parameter as passed to your chart from the application:

• records: a list of Neo4j Records. This is the raw data returned from the Neo4j driver.
• settings: a dictionary of settings as defined under "advanced report settings" for each report. You can use these values to customize your visualization based on user input.
• selection: a dictionary with the selection made in the report footer.
• dimensions: an array with the dimensions of the report (mostly not needed, charts automatically fill up space).
• queryCallback: a way for the report to read more data from Neo4j, on interactions.
• setGlobalParameter: a way for the report to set globally available Cypher parameters, on interactions.

Make sure that your component renders a React component. your component will be automatically scaled to the size of the report. See the other charts in src/charts/ for examples.

2. Extend the config to make your component selectable

To let users choose your visualization, you must add it to the app's report configuration. This config is located in src/config/ReportConfig.tsx, and defined by the dictionary REPORT_TYPES.

To add your visualization to the config, add a new key to the REPORT_TYPES dictionary with a unique name. The entry's value is an object which can contain the following fields:

• label: a display name for the visualization. Mandatory.
• component: the React component that renders the visualization. Mandatory.
• helperText: a string that is show under the query box in the report settings. Mandatory.
• selection: a list that contains each of the selection boxes present in the report footer. Optional.
• settings: a list of selection boxes that shows under the advanced settings. Optional.
• maxRecords: a hard limit on the number of records the visualization can handle. Mandatory.
• useRecordMapper: whether to use the in-built record mapper to fix your results in a specific format. Optional.
• useNodePropsAsFields: whether to use the node property selector as a report footer override. Optional.

If all works, please consider contributing your code to this repository.

Questions / Suggestions

If you have any questions about NeoDash, please reach out. For feature requests, consider opening an issue(link) on GitHub.

Changelog

NeoDash 2.0.4

New features:

• Added option dashboard setting to let users view reports in a fullscreen pop-up.
• Added inspection pop-up for graph visualizations.
• Added option to manually specify node labels/property names in parameter selection reports (for large databases).
• Added example of how to user map visualizations from derived properties.
• Added button to return to the welcome screen.
• iFrames can now take live parameter selections in the hash-part of the URL.

Bug fixes:

• Dashboards will now remember the active selection(s) made in parameter select reports.
• Graph visualizations will no longer draw overlapping lines when a pair of nodes shares bidirectional relationships.
• connection screen is now dismissable if an existing connection exists.

Special thanks to @JipSogeti for their contributions to this release.