node-neo4j v2 redesign

[Aseem Kishore]

Hi folks,

I had a great chat with Michael Hunger and Brian Gates last week at GraphConnect. Brian is the author of another Node.js driver, cypher-stream:

https://github.com/brian-gates/cypher-stream

cypher-stream does *just* Cypher queries, but it does them really well — streaming, and recently added support for transactions.

To get the most out of that, we agreed it made sense for node-neo4j to use/wrap cypher-stream going forward, which is exciting.

In that spirit, I'd also like to finally pull the trigger on a v2 redesign for node-neo4j, being only Neo4j v2-compatible, and emphasizing Cypher over the old REST API.

I've opened an issue to discuss the details and start this work:

https://github.com/thingdom/node-neo4j/issues/143

Thoughts welcome! Thanks all.

Aseem

[Aseem Kishore]

Okay, I've taken a thorough stab at an API spec for this v2 redesign:

https://github.com/thingdom/node-neo4j/blob/v2/API_v2.md

Feedback more than welcome. Feel free to follow along the original issue (linked below), or comment on this PR:

https://github.com/thingdom/node-neo4j/pull/145

Thanks!

Aseem