next.js/examples/data-fetch/README.md

Data fetch example

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 data-fetch data-fetch-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/data-fetch
cd data-fetch

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

Next.js was conceived to make it easy to create universal apps. That's why fetching data on the server and the client when necessary is so easy with Next.

Using getInitialProps fetches data on the server for SSR and then on the client when the component is re-mounted (not on the first paint).