Building Neo4j Applications with Go

Categories: Go

Learn how to interact with Neo4j from your Go application using the Neo4j Go Driver

Course Description

In this course, we walk through the steps to integrate Neo4j into your Go projects.

We will follow the steps to create an instance of the Neo4j Go Driver, learn how to use sessions and transactions, and use that knowledge to replace hardcoded API responses with data from a Neo4j Sandbox instance.

The project also serves a pre-built Single Page Application (SPA) that calls the API. As you work through the course, you will replace the hardcoded API responses with data from Neo4j.

The course automatically creates a new recommendations sandbox within Neo4j Sandbox that you will use throughout the course.

Prerequisites

By taking this course, we assume that you have a working knowledge of Go, dependency management with pkg.go.dev and wider Go ecosystem. We also assume that you have at least a basic knowledge of Neo4j.

If you haven’t already done so, we recommend that you also take the Neo4j Fundamentals course in order to gain a basic understanding of Neo4j and the Cypher Fundamentals to understand how to query Neo4j using Cypher.

Duration

8 hours

What you will learn

The lifecycle of the Neo4j Driver and how it relates to your application
How to install and instantiate the Neo4j Go Driver to your Go project
How read and write transactions work with Neo4j
Best practices on how to use Neo4j within your Go project.

Get Support

If you find yourself stuck at any stage then our friendly community will be happy to help. You can reach out for help on the Neo4j Community Site, or head over to the Neo4j Discord server for real-time discussions.