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[![Deploy to now ](https://deploy.now.sh/static/button.svg )](https://deploy.now.sh/?repo=https://github.com/zeit/next.js/tree/master/examples/data-fetch)
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# Data fetch example
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## How to use
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### Using `create-next-app`
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Execute [`create-next-app` ](https://github.com/segmentio/create-next-app ) with [Yarn ](https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/create/ ) or [npx ](https://github.com/zkat/npx#readme ) to bootstrap the example:
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```bash
npx create-next-app --example data-fetch data-fetch-app
# or
yarn create next-app --example data-fetch data-fetch-app
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```
### Download manually
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Download the example [or clone the repo ](https://github.com/zeit/next.js ):
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```bash
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curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/data-fetch
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cd data-fetch
```
Install it and run:
```bash
npm install
npm run dev
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# or
yarn
yarn dev
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```
Deploy it to the cloud with [now ](https://zeit.co/now ) ([download](https://zeit.co/download))
```bash
now
```
## The idea behind the example
Next.js was conceived to make it easy to create universal apps. That's why fetching data
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on the server and the client when necessary is so easy with Next.
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Using `getInitialProps` fetches data on the server for SSR and then on the client when the component is re-mounted (not on the first paint).