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Download the example [or clone the repo](https://github.com/zeit/next.js):
```bash
curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/master | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-master/examples/with-socket.io
cd with-socket.io
```
Install it and run:
```bash
npm install
npm run dev
```
## The idea behind the example
This example show how to use [socket.io](https://socket.io/) inside a Next.js application. It uses `getInitialProps` to fetch the old messages from a HTTP endpoint as if it was a Rest API. The example combine the WebSocket server with the Next server, in a production application you should split them as different services.