With the current Structr version 1.1, you can use deeply nested JSON documents to create graph structures in Neo4j. In this talk, I will demonstrate how to use Structr and Neo4j as a document database and explain how it works under the hood.
With the help of the audience, I'll try to create a complex webapp within 30 minutes.
Complex in the sense of: Custom use case (unprepared, told by audience), custom JSON/REST backend, beautiful HTML5/CSS3 template, dynamic data, user interaction, Twitter/FB connect).
Everything we need is the Open Source framework Structr, on top of the graph database Neo4j.
This will be very interactive, and even fun if it works. ;-)
This talk will give an insight view on what we did during the last almost three years, building 'structr'. I'll speak about the early days, present material from the first prototypes, how the project evolved from a naïve CMS approach to a sophisticated REST backend framework driven by a customer project, and how we're now building CMS components and more projects on that basis. I'll end up with some conclusions and a short demo of structr. In an extensive Q&A session, I'd like to answer questions, discuss different approaches and lessons learned, and maybe give some hints to help and encourage people to get started with Neo4j or graph databases in general.
