Creating a Driver Instance

Your challenge is to add a new Driver instance to an existing file with the connection details provided. Once you have created the Driver, you must open a new session and run a Cypher statement to find the director of Toy Story.

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Steps

Install the Neo4j JavaScript Driver in the integrated terminal window
Use the neo4j object to create a new instance of the Driver with the credentials provided:
- NEO4J_URI is the connection string
- NEO4J_USERNAME and NEO4J_PASSWORD should be used to create the authentication token.

Once you have created the Driver, open a new session and run the following query:

cypher

Find the Director

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The statement requires the following parameters:

typescript

{ title: 'Toy Story' }

To find the answer, click the Debug icon to the left of the window and run Create Driver Challenge task, or use the integrated terminal window to run the following command:
sh
Run The Challenge
```
ts-node src/challenges/create-driver/challenge.ts
```
Once you have the result, copy and paste it into the text box below and click Check Answer.

View the Solution

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Your Answer

Who directed Toy Story?

Take the Director value output from the statement above and paste it into the box below.

✓ John Lasseter

Hint

You need to call the neo4j.driver() object to create a Driver instance using the NEO4J_URI, NEO4J_USERNAME and NEO4J_PASSWORD variables, then open a new session, execute the Cypher statement and log the Director value of the first record.

Your console.log() statement should look similar to the code block below:

console.log(res.records[0].get('Director'))

Copy the answer without any quotes or whitespace.

Solution

John Lasseter directed Toy Story.

Compare your code with the solution here

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Click here to view the solution.

Lesson Summary

In this challenge, you used your knowledge to create a driver instance and run a Cypher statement.

In the next lesson, you will learn about the different transaction functions and when to use them.

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