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# Shallow Routing Example
## How to use
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/hello-world
cd hello-world
```
Install it and run:
```bash
npm install
npm run dev
```
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```bash
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```
## The idea behind the example
With shallow routing, we could change the URL without actually running the `getInitialProps` every time you change the URL.
We do this passing the `shallow: true` option to `Router.push` or `Router.replace` .