# Example app using shared modules ## How to use Download the example: ```bash curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/master | tar -xz next.js-master/examples/shared-modules cd next.js-master/examples/shared-modules ``` or clone the repo: ```bash git clone git@github.com:zeit/next.js.git --depth=1 cd next.js/examples/shared-modules ``` Install the dependencies: ```bash npm install ``` Run the dev server: ```bash npm run dev ``` ## The idea behind the example This example features: * An app with two pages which has a common Counter component * That Counter component maintain the counter inside its module. This is used primarily to illustrate that modules get initialized once and their state variables persist in runtime