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

Data fetch example

How to use

Using create-next-app

Execute create-next-app with Yarn or npx to bootstrap the example:

npx create-next-app --example data-fetch data-fetch-app
# or
yarn create next-app --example data-fetch data-fetch-app

Download manually

Download the example:

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
# or
yarn
yarn dev

Deploy it to the cloud with now (download)

now

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).