next.js/examples/with-prefetching/README.md

Example app with prefetching pages

How to use

Using create-next-app

Download create-next-app to bootstrap the example:

npm i -g create-next-app
create-next-app --example with-prefetching with-prefetching-app

Download manually

Download the example or clone the repo:

curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/master | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-master/examples/with-prefetching
cd with-prefetching

Install it and run:

npm install
npm run dev

Deploy it to the cloud with now (download)

now

The idea behind the example

This example features:

• An app with four simple pages
• The "about" page uses the imperative (i.e.: "manual") prefetching API to prefetch on hover
• It will prefetch all the pages in the background except the "contact" page