diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+/target
+/classes
+/checkouts
+pom.xml
+pom.xml.asc
+*.jar
+*.class
+/.lein-*
+/.nrepl-port
+.hgignore
+.hg/
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
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+(defproject lein-neo4j "0.1.0"
+  :description "neo4j server invokable from leiningen"
+  :url "https://gitea.heevyis.ninja/josha/lein-neo4j"
+  :license {:name "GPL-3.0"
+            :url "https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0"}
+  :dependencies [[org.neo4j/neo4j "3.4.4"]
+                 [org.neo4j.app/neo4j-server "3.4.4"]]
+  :eval-in-leiningen true)
diff --git a/src/leiningen/neo4j.clj b/src/leiningen/neo4j.clj
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+(ns leiningen.neo4j
+  (:import org.neo4j.graphdb.factory.GraphDatabaseFactory
+           org.neo4j.server.CommunityBootstrapper
+           java.lang.Runtime
+           java.lang.Thread
+           java.util.Optional)
+  (:require [clojure.java.io :as io]))
+
+(defn neo4j
+  [project & args]
+  (let [path (io/as-file (get-in project [:neo4j :path] "target/neo4j"))
+        config (get-in project [:neo4j :config] {})
+        server (CommunityBootstrapper.)]
+    (.start server path (Optional/empty) config)
+    (while true (Thread/sleep 10000))))