Backend API with Spring Boot, Spring Data and Neo4j.

Spring Boot has made it simpler than ever to get setup with Neo4j. Pretty much the only dependency you need to get started is the spring-boot-starter-data-neo4j, which includes a number of other Spring dependencies for all Spring magics, and neo4j ogm dependencies.

Three key players involve in the configurations for connecting to neo4j and doing data access operations utilizing Spring: Transaction Manager, SessionFactory and Configuration.

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