# 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
```

Deploy it to the cloud with [now](https://zeit.co/now) ([download](https://zeit.co/download))

```bash
now
```

## 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`.