next.js/examples/with-shallow-routing

Shallow Routing 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 with-shallow-routing with-shallow-routing-app
# or
yarn create next-app --example with-shallow-routing with-shallow-routing-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/with-shallow-routing
cd with-shallow-routing

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

With shallow routing, we could change the URL without actually running the getInitialProps every time you change the URL.

We do this passing the shallow: true option to Router.push or Router.replace.