next.js/examples/with-prefetching

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/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/with-prefetching
cd with-prefetching

Install it and run:

npm install
npm run dev

Deploy it to the cloud with now (download)

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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