Download create-next-app to bootstrap the example:
npm i -g create-next-app
create-next-app --example data-fetch data-fetch-app
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-fetchInstall it and run:
npm install
npm run devDeploy it to the cloud with now (download)
nowNext.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).