diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cadddb53..290caa14 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ and add a script to your package.json like this:
 {
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "next"
-  } 
+  }
 }
 ```
 
@@ -142,9 +142,9 @@ For the initial page load, `getInitialProps` will execute on the server only. `g
 - `xhr` - XMLHttpRequest object (client only)
 - `err` - Error object if any error is encountered during the rendering
 
-### Routing
+### Routing with <Link>
 
-Client-side transitions between routes are enabled via a `<Link>` component
+Client-side transitions between routes can be enabled via a `<Link>` component
 
 #### pages/index.js
 
@@ -178,11 +178,54 @@ Each top-level component receives a `url` property with the following API:
 - `pushTo(url)` - performs a `pushState` call that renders the new `url`. This is equivalent to following a `<Link>`
 - `replaceTo(url)` - performs a `replaceState` call that renders the new `url`
 
+### Routing with next/router
+
+You can also do client-side page transitions using the `next/router`. This is the same API used inside the above `<Link />` component.
+
+```jsx
+import Router from 'next/router'
+
+const routeTo(href) {
+  return (e) => {
+    e.preventDefault()
+    Router.push(href)
+  }
+}
+
+export default () => (
+  <div>Click <a href='#' onClick={routeTo('/about')}>here</a> to read more</div>
+)
+```
+
+#### pages/about.js
+
+```jsx
+export default () => (
+  <p>Welcome to About!</p>
+)
+```
+
+Above `Router` object comes with the following API:
+
+- `route` - `String` of the current route
+- `pathname` - `String` of the current path excluding the query string
+- `query` - `Object` with the parsed query string. Defaults to `{}`
+- `push(url, pathname=url)` - performs a `pushState` call associated with the current component
+- `replace(url, pathname=url)` - performs a `replaceState` call associated with the current component
+
+> Usually, route is the same as pathname.
+> But when used with programmatic API, route and pathname can be different.
+> "route" is your actual page's path while "pathname" is the path of the url mapped to it.
+>
+> Likewise, url and path is the same usually.
+> But when used with programmatic API, "url" is the route with the query string.
+> "pathname" is the path of the url mapped to it.
+
 ### Prefetching Pages
 
-Next.js exposes a module that configures a `ServiceWorker` automatically to prefetch pages: `next/prefetch`. 
+Next.js exposes a module that configures a `ServiceWorker` automatically to prefetch pages: `next/prefetch`.
 
-Since Next.js server-renders your pages, this allows all the future interaction paths of your app to be instant. Effectively Next.js gives you the great initial download performance of a _website_, with the ahead-of-time download capabilities of an _app_. [Read more](https://zeit.co/blog/next#anticipation-is-the-key-to-performance). 
+Since Next.js server-renders your pages, this allows all the future interaction paths of your app to be instant. Effectively Next.js gives you the great initial download performance of a _website_, with the ahead-of-time download capabilities of an _app_. [Read more](https://zeit.co/blog/next#anticipation-is-the-key-to-performance).
 
 #### Link prefetching
 
@@ -251,7 +294,7 @@ export default class Error extends React.Component {
 
 ### Custom configuration
 
-For custom advanced behavior of Next.js, you can create a `next.config.js` in the root of your project directory (next to `pages/` and `package.json`). 
+For custom advanced behavior of Next.js, you can create a `next.config.js` in the root of your project directory (next to `pages/` and `package.json`).
 
 Note: `next.config.js` is a regular Node.js module, not a JSON file. It gets used by the Next server and build phases, and not included in the browser build.
 
@@ -264,7 +307,7 @@ module.exports = {
 
 ### Customizing webpack config
 
-In order to extend our usage of `webpack`, you can define a function that extends its config. 
+In order to extend our usage of `webpack`, you can define a function that extends its config.
 
 The following example shows how you can use [`react-svg-loader`](https://github.com/boopathi/react-svg-loader) to easily import any `.svg` file as a React component, without modification.
 
diff --git a/client/next.js b/client/next.js
index 0c2b7604..c44e0c29 100644
--- a/client/next.js
+++ b/client/next.js
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 import { createElement } from 'react'
 import { render } from 'react-dom'
 import HeadManager from './head-manager'
-import domready from 'domready'
 import { rehydrate } from '../lib/css'
-import Router from '../lib/router'
+import { createRouter } from '../lib/router'
 import App from '../lib/app'
 import evalScript from '../lib/eval-script'
 
@@ -19,25 +18,18 @@ const {
   }
 } = window
 
-domready(() => {
-  const Component = evalScript(component).default
-  const ErrorComponent = evalScript(errorComponent).default
+const Component = evalScript(component).default
+const ErrorComponent = evalScript(errorComponent).default
 
-  const router = new Router(pathname, query, {
-    Component,
-    ErrorComponent,
-    ctx: { err }
-  })
-
-  // This it to support error handling in the dev time with hot code reload.
-  if (window.next) {
-    window.next.router = router
-  }
-
-  const headManager = new HeadManager()
-  const container = document.getElementById('__next')
-  const appProps = { Component, props, router, headManager }
-
-  if (ids) rehydrate(ids)
-  render(createElement(App, appProps), container)
+export const router = createRouter(pathname, query, {
+  Component,
+  ErrorComponent,
+  ctx: { err }
 })
+
+const headManager = new HeadManager()
+const container = document.getElementById('__next')
+const appProps = { Component, props, router, headManager }
+
+if (ids) rehydrate(ids)
+render(createElement(App, appProps), container)
diff --git a/client/webpack-hot-middleware-client.js b/client/webpack-hot-middleware-client.js
index 079089e3..8e463305 100644
--- a/client/webpack-hot-middleware-client.js
+++ b/client/webpack-hot-middleware-client.js
@@ -1,27 +1,27 @@
-/* global next */
 import webpackHotMiddlewareClient from 'webpack-hot-middleware/client?overlay=false&reload=true'
+import Router from '../lib/router'
 
 const handlers = {
   reload (route) {
     if (route === '/_error') {
-      for (const r of Object.keys(next.router.components)) {
-        const { Component } = next.router.components[r]
+      for (const r of Object.keys(Router.components)) {
+        const { Component } = Router.components[r]
         if (Component.__route === '/_error-debug') {
           // reload all '/_error-debug'
           // which are expected to be errors of '/_error' routes
-          next.router.reload(r)
+          Router.reload(r)
         }
       }
       return
     }
 
-    next.router.reload(route)
+    Router.reload(route)
   },
   change (route) {
-    const { Component } = next.router.components[route] || {}
+    const { Component } = Router.components[route] || {}
     if (Component && Component.__route === '/_error-debug') {
       // reload to recover from runtime errors
-      next.router.reload(route)
+      Router.reload(route)
     }
   },
   hardReload () {
diff --git a/examples/using-router/README.md b/examples/using-router/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0a0c2733
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/using-router/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Example app utilizing next/router for routing
+
+This example features:
+
+* An app linking pages using `next/router` instead of `<Link>` component.
+* Access the pathname using `next/router` and render it in a component
+
+## How to run it
+
+```sh
+npm install
+npm run dev
+```
diff --git a/examples/using-router/components/Header.js b/examples/using-router/components/Header.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a07ab14b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/using-router/components/Header.js
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import React from 'react'
+import Router from 'next/router'
+
+const styles = {
+  a: {
+    marginRight: 10
+  }
+}
+
+const Link = ({ children, href }) => (
+  <a
+    href='#'
+    style={styles.a}
+    onClick={(e) => {
+      e.preventDefault()
+      Router.push(href)
+    }}
+  >
+    { children }
+  </a>
+)
+
+export default () => (
+  <div>
+    <Link href='/'>Home</Link>
+    <Link href='/about'>About</Link>
+    <div>
+      <small>Now you are in the route: {Router.route} </small>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+)
diff --git a/examples/using-router/package.json b/examples/using-router/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8d7c733d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/using-router/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "name": "shared-modules",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "description": "This example features:",
+  "main": "index.js",
+  "scripts": {
+    "dev": "next",
+    "build": "next build",
+    "start": "next start"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "next": "*"
+  },
+  "author": "",
+  "license": "ISC"
+}
diff --git a/examples/using-router/pages/about.js b/examples/using-router/pages/about.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2bf1cea4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/using-router/pages/about.js
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import React from 'react'
+import Header from '../components/Header'
+
+export default () => (
+  <div>
+    <Header />
+    <p>This is the about page.</p>
+  </div>
+)
diff --git a/examples/using-router/pages/index.js b/examples/using-router/pages/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..994c3c7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/using-router/pages/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import React from 'react'
+import Header from '../components/Header'
+
+export default () => (
+  <div>
+    <Header />
+    <p>HOME PAGE is here!</p>
+  </div>
+)
diff --git a/lib/link.js b/lib/link.js
index cb9f5134..fffed123 100644
--- a/lib/link.js
+++ b/lib/link.js
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
-import React, { Component, PropTypes, Children } from 'react'
+import React, { Component, Children } from 'react'
+import Router from './router'
 
 export default class Link extends Component {
-  static contextTypes = {
-    router: PropTypes.object
-  }
-
   constructor (props) {
     super(props)
     this.linkClicked = this.linkClicked.bind(this)
@@ -30,14 +27,14 @@ export default class Link extends Component {
     const url = as || href
 
     // straight up redirect
-    this.context.router.push(route, url)
-    .then((success) => {
-      if (!success) return
-      if (scroll !== false) window.scrollTo(0, 0)
-    })
-    .catch((err) => {
-      if (this.props.onError) this.props.onError(err)
-    })
+    Router.push(route, url)
+      .then((success) => {
+        if (!success) return
+        if (scroll !== false) window.scrollTo(0, 0)
+      })
+      .catch((err) => {
+        if (this.props.onError) this.props.onError(err)
+      })
   }
 
   render () {
diff --git a/lib/router/index.js b/lib/router/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3cfcea30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/router/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+import _Router from './router'
+
+// holds the actual router instance
+let router = null
+
+const SingletonRouter = {}
+
+// Create public properties and methods of the router in the SingletonRouter
+const propertyFields = ['route', 'components', 'pathname', 'query']
+const methodFields = ['push', 'replace', 'reload', 'back']
+
+propertyFields.forEach((field) => {
+  // Here we need to use Object.defineProperty because, we need to return
+  // the property assigned to the actual router
+  // The value might get changed as we change routes and this is the
+  // proper way to access it
+  Object.defineProperty(SingletonRouter, field, {
+    get () {
+      return router[field]
+    }
+  })
+})
+
+methodFields.forEach((field) => {
+  SingletonRouter[field] = (...args) => {
+    return router[field](...args)
+  }
+})
+
+// This is an internal method and it should not be called directly.
+//
+// ## Client Side Usage
+// We create the router in the client side only for a single time when we are
+// booting the app. It happens before rendering any components.
+// At the time of the component rendering, there'll be a router instance
+//
+// ## Server Side Usage
+// We create router for every SSR page render.
+// Since rendering happens in the same eventloop this works properly.
+export const createRouter = function (...args) {
+  router = new _Router(...args)
+  return router
+}
+
+// Export the actual Router class, which is also use internally
+// You'll ever need to access this directly
+export const Router = _Router
+
+// Export the SingletonRouter and this is the public API.
+// This is an client side API and doesn't available on the server
+export default SingletonRouter
diff --git a/lib/router.js b/lib/router/router.js
similarity index 97%
rename from lib/router.js
rename to lib/router/router.js
index 70cea91c..fe9f09a5 100644
--- a/lib/router.js
+++ b/lib/router/router.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { parse } from 'url'
-import evalScript from './eval-script'
-import shallowEquals from './shallow-equals'
+import evalScript from '../eval-script'
+import shallowEquals from '../shallow-equals'
 
 export default class Router {
   constructor (pathname, query, { Component, ErrorComponent, ctx } = {}) {
@@ -97,11 +97,11 @@ export default class Router {
     window.history.back()
   }
 
-  push (route, url) {
+  push (route, url = route) {
     return this.change('pushState', route, url)
   }
 
-  replace (route, url) {
+  replace (route, url = route) {
     return this.change('replaceState', route, url)
   }
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 35d5a969..42722d17 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@
     "chokidar": "1.6.1",
     "cross-spawn": "5.0.1",
     "del": "2.2.2",
-    "domready": "1.0.8",
     "friendly-errors-webpack-plugin": "1.1.2",
     "glamor": "2.20.12",
     "glob-promise": "3.1.0",
diff --git a/router.js b/router.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b8c9ff94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/router.js
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+module.exports = require('./dist/lib/router')
diff --git a/server/render.js b/server/render.js
index 8f99394f..aad29fe6 100644
--- a/server/render.js
+++ b/server/render.js
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { createElement } from 'react'
 import { renderToString, renderToStaticMarkup } from 'react-dom/server'
 import requireModule from './require'
 import read from './read'
-import Router from '../lib/router'
+import { createRouter } from '../lib/router'
 import Head, { defaultHead } from '../lib/head'
 import App from '../lib/app'
 
@@ -56,10 +56,11 @@ async function doRender (req, res, pathname, query, {
   if (res.finished) return
 
   const renderPage = () => {
+    const router = createRouter(pathname, query)
     const app = createElement(App, {
       Component,
       props,
-      router: new Router(pathname, query)
+      router
     })
     const html = (staticMarkup ? renderToStaticMarkup : renderToString)(app)
     const head = Head.rewind() || defaultHead()