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# Electron application example
**You can find a detailed documentation about how to build Electron apps with Next.js [here](https://leo.im/2017/electron-next)!**
## How to use
### Using `create-next-app`
Download [`create-next-app`](https://github.com/segmentio/create-next-app) to bootstrap the example:
```
npm i -g create-next-app
create-next-app --example with-electron with-electron-app
```
### Download manually
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/with-electron
cd with-electron
```
Install it and run:
```bash
npm install
npm start
```
## The idea behind the example
This example show how you can use Next.js inside an Electron application to avoid a lot of configuration, use Next.js router as view and use server-render to speed up the initial render of the application.
For development it's going to run a HTTP server and let Next.js handle routing. In production it use `next export` to pre-generate HTML static files and use them in your app instead of running an HTTP server.
You can create the production app using `npm run dist`.