neovis.js

Graph visualizations powered by vis.js with data from Neo4j.

Features

Connect to Neo4j instance to get live data
User specified labels and property to be displayed
User specified Cypher query to populate
Specify node property for url of image for node
Specify edge property for edge thickness
Specify node property for community / clustering
Specify node property for node size
Configure popover

Install

Neovis.js can be installed via npm:

npm install --save neovis.js

you can also obtain neovis.js via CDN:

CDN

For ease of use Neovis.js can be obtained from Neo4jLabs CDN:

Most recent release

<script src="https://cdn.neo4jlabs.com/neovis.js/v1.5.0/neovis.js"></script>

Version without neo4j-driver dependency

<script src="https://cdn.neo4jlabs.com/neovis.js/v1.5.0/neovis-without-dependencies.js"></script>

Quickstart Example

Let's go through the steps to reproduce this visualization:

Prepare Neo4j

Start with a blank Neo4j instance, or spin up a blank Neo4j Sandbox. We'll load the Game of Thrones dataset, run:

LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mathbeveridge/asoiaf/master/data/asoiaf-all-edges.csv" AS row
MERGE (src:Character {name: row.Source})
MERGE (tgt:Character {name: row.Target})
MERGE (src)-[r:INTERACTS]->(tgt) ON CREATE SET r.weight = toInteger(row.weight)

We've pre-calculated PageRank and ran a community detection algorithm to assign community ids for each Character. Let's load those next:

LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johnymontana/neovis.js/master/examples/data/got-centralities.csv" AS row
MATCH (c:Character {name: row.name})
SET c.community = toInteger(row.community),
    c.pagerank  = toFloat(row.pagerank)

Our graph now consists of Character nodes that are connected by an INTERACTS relationships. We can visualize the whole graph in Neo4j Browser by running:

MATCH p=(:Character)-[:INTERACTS]->(:Character)
RETURN p

We can see characters that are connected and with the help of the force directed layout we can begin to see clusters in the graph. However, we want to visualize the centralities (PageRank) and community detection results that we also imported.

Specifically we would like:

Node size to be proportional to the Character's pagerank score. This will allow us to quickly identify important nodes in the network.
Node color to determined by the community property. This will allow us to visualize clusters.
Relationship thickeness should be proportional to the weight property on the INTERACTS relationship.

Neovis.js, by combining the JavaScript driver for Neo4j and the vis.js visualization library will allow us to build this visualization.

index.html

Create a new html file:

<!doctype html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Neovis.js Simple Example</title>
        <style type="text/css">
            html, body {
                font: 16pt arial;
            }
    
            #viz {
                width: 900px;
                height: 700px;
                border: 1px solid lightgray;
                font: 22pt arial;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body onload="draw()">
        <div id="viz"></div>
    </body>    
</html>

We define some basic CSS to specify the boundaries of a div and then create a single div in the body. We also specify onload="draw()" so that the draw() function is called as soon as the body is loaded.

We need to pull in neovis.js:

<script src="https://rawgit.com/neo4j-contrib/neovis.js/master/dist/neovis.js"></script>

And define our draw() function:

<script type="text/javascript">

        var viz;

        function draw() {
            var config = {
                container_id: "viz",
                server_url: "bolt://localhost:7687",
                server_user: "neo4j",
                server_password: "sorts-swims-burglaries",
                labels: {
                    "Character": {
                        "caption": "name",
                        "size": "pagerank",
                        "community": "community",
                        "title_properties": [
                            "name",
                            "pagerank"
                        ]
                    }
                },
                relationships: {
                    "INTERACTS": {
                        "thickness": "weight",
                        "caption": false
                    }
                },
                initial_cypher: "MATCH (n)-[r:INTERACTS]->(m) RETURN *"
            };

            viz = new NeoVis.default(config);
            viz.render();
        }
    </script>

This function creates a config object that specifies how to connect to Neo4j, what data to fetch, and how to configure the visualization.

See simple-example.html for the full code.

module usage

you can also use it as module, but it would require you have a way to import css files

import NeoVis from 'neovis.js';

or you can import the version with bundled dependency

import NeoVis from 'neovis.js/dist/neovis.js';

Build

This project uses git submodules to include the dependencies for neo4j-driver and vis.js. This project uses webpack to build a bundle that includes all project dependencies. webpack.config.js contains the configuration for webpack. After cloning the repo:

npm install
npm run build

will build dist/neovis.js and dist/neovis-without-dependencies.js

Documentation

Neovis.default(config)
Neovis.clearNetwork()
Neovis.reinit(config)
Neovis.reload()
Neovis.stabilize()
Neovis.renderWithCypher(statement)
Neovis.updateWithCypher(statement)
config

`Neovis.default(config)`

Constructor for Neovis. Creates new Neovis object, given configuration. See config

`Neovis.clearNetwork()`

Clears network visualization

`Neovis.reinit(config)`

Reinitializes the network visualization with a new config object. See config

`Neovis.reload()`

Reload the visualization. Will fetch data again from Neo4j per initial_cypher in the config object.

`Neovis.stabilize()`

Stop the physics simulation.

`Neovis.renderWithCypher(statement)`

Render a new visualization with results from a Cypher statement. Any Node and Relationship objects returned in the Cypher query will be rendered in the visualization. Paths are not currently supported.

`Neovis.updateWithCypher(statement)`

Update the current visualization with results from a Cypher statement. Any Node and Relationship objects returned in the Cypher query will be rendered in the visualization. Paths are not currently supported.

`config`

A configuration object that defines:

how to connect to Neo4j (required)
an initial Cypher query for loading data for the visualization (optional)
the DOM element in which the visualization should be rendered (required)
how to style elements of the visualization (labels and relationships) (required)

Example:

var config = {
                container_id: "viz",
                server_url: "bolt://localhost:7687",
                server_user: "neo4j",
                server_password: "sorts-swims-burglaries",
                labels: {
                    //"Character": "name",
                    "Character": {
                        "caption": "name",
                        "size": "pagerank",
                        "community": "community",
                        //"image": 'https://visjs.org/images/visjs_logo.png',
                        "title_properties": [
                            "name",
                            "pagerank"
                        ],
                        //"sizeCypher": "MATCH (n) WHERE id(n) = {id} MATCH (n)-[r]-() RETURN sum(r.weight) AS c"
                    },
                    [NeoVis.NEOVIS_DEFAULT_CONFIG]: {
                         "caption": "defaultCaptionProperty",
                         "size": "defaultPagerank",
                         "community": "defaultCommunity"
                         //"sizeCypher": "defaultSizeCypher"
                                            
                    }
                },
                relationships: {
                    "INTERACTS": {
                        "thickness": "weight",
                        "caption": false
                    },
                    [NeoVis.NEOVIS_DEFAULT_CONFIG]: {
                         "thickness": "defaultThicknessProperty",
                         "caption": "defaultCaption"
                    }
                },
                initial_cypher: "MATCH (n)-[r:INTERACTS]->(m) RETURN n,r,m"
            };

            viz = new NeoVis.default(config);
            viz.render();

`config.container_id`

`config.server_url`

`config.server_user`

`config.server_password`

`config.server_database`

(Only for Neo4j 4 and above) The name of database connecting to.

`NeoVis.NEOVIS_DEFAULT_CONFIG`

For both config.labels and config.relationships NeoVis.NEOVIS_DEFAULT_CONFIG symbol can be added, which have the have the same properties as the normal config for specific label/relationshipType you can use it by either NeoVis.NEOVIS_DEFAULT_CONFIG if you are using NeoVis as global or you can use it by

import { NEOVIS_DEFAULT_CONFIG } from 'neovis.js';

`config.labels`

"Character": {
    "caption": "name",
    "size": "pagerank",
    "community": "community",
    "image": 'https://visjs.org/images/visjs_logo.png',
    "font": {
        "size":26,
        "color":"#000000"
    },
    "title_properties": [
        "name",
        "pagerank"
    ],
    sizeCypher: "MATCH (n) WHERE id(n) = $id MATCH (n)-[r]-() RETURN sum(r.weight) AS c"
}

`config.labels.caption`

String: The property name to use as node caption.
or Function: A function takes a Neo4j node and return a string caption.
Default to no caption.

`config.labels.size`

String: The property name to use as node size.
Default to 1.

`config.labels.community`

String: The property name to use as community (color).
Default to color by label.

`config.labels.image`

String. The url of image to display.
Default to no image (a dot will be displayed).

`config.labels.font`

Object: If font is supplied, the default font size configuration for node captions will be overwritten by the customized config. See font in vis-network - nodes for all available configuration for fonts.

`config.labels.title_properties`

Array: If title_properties is supplied, only the attributes listed in it are displayed in the tooltip. Otherwise, all attributes are present in the tooltip.

`config.labels.sizeCypher`

String: A Cypher query to get the size of the node. $id represent the id of the node to query size, and the Cypher query should return a Neo4j Number.
config.labels.sizeCypher has a higher priority than config.labels.size, i.e. sizeCypher will overwrite the resulting size from size field.

`config.relationships`

{
    "INTERACTS": {
        "thickness": "weight",
        "caption": false
    }
}

`config.relationships.thickness`

String: The property name to use as edge thickness.
Default to 1.

`config.relationships.caption`

Boolean: If set to true, the relationship type will be displayed as edge caption.
or String: The property name to use as edge caption.

`config.arrows`

Boolean. Defaults to false.

`config.hierarchical`

Boolean. Default to false.

`config.hierarchical_sort_method`

When hierarchical layout is enabled you may choose betweeen "hubsize" (default) and "directed".

`config.initial_cypher`

`config.console_debug`

Defaults to not showing console messages

`config.encrypted`

"ENCRYPTION_OFF" (default) or "ENCRYPTION_ON"

This must be set to "ENCRYPTION_ON" when using a secure WebSocket connection, such as with Neo4j Aura.

`config.trust`

"TRUST_ALL_CERTIFICATES" (default) or "TRUST_SYSTEM_CA_SIGNED_CERTIFICATES"

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neovis.js

Features

Install

CDN

Quickstart Example

Prepare Neo4j

index.html

module usage

Build

Documentation

Neovis.default(config)

Neovis.clearNetwork()

Neovis.reinit(config)

Neovis.reload()

Neovis.stabilize()

Neovis.renderWithCypher(statement)

Neovis.updateWithCypher(statement)

config

config.container_id

config.server_url

config.server_user

config.server_password

config.server_database

NeoVis.NEOVIS_DEFAULT_CONFIG

config.labels

config.labels.caption

config.labels.size

config.labels.community

config.labels.image

config.labels.font

config.labels.title_properties

config.labels.sizeCypher

config.relationships

config.relationships.thickness

config.relationships.caption

config.arrows

config.hierarchical

config.hierarchical_sort_method

config.initial_cypher

config.console_debug

config.encrypted

config.trust

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