Execute [`create-next-app`](https://github.com/zeit/next.js/tree/canary/packages/create-next-app) with [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/create/) or [npx](https://github.com/zkat/npx#readme) to bootstrap the example:
curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/api-routes
cd api-routes
```
Install it and run:
```bash
npm install
npm run dev
# or
yarn
yarn dev
```
Deploy it to the cloud with [now](https://zeit.co/now) ([download](https://zeit.co/download))
```bash
now
```
## The idea behind the example
Next.js ships with [API routes](https://github.com/zeit/next.js#api-routes) which provides an easy solution to build your own `API`. This example shows how to create multiple `API` endpoints with serverless functions, which can execute independently.