diff --git a/examples/svg-components/.babelrc b/examples/svg-components/.babelrc
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+{
+ "presets": [ "next/babel" ],
+ "plugins": [ "inline-react-svg" ]
+}
diff --git a/examples/svg-components/README.md b/examples/svg-components/README.md
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+
+# SVG components example
+
+## How to use
+
+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/svg-components
+cd svg-components
+```
+
+Install it and run:
+
+```bash
+npm install
+npm run dev
+```
+
+Deploy it to the cloud with [now](https://zeit.co/now) ([download](https://zeit.co/download))
+
+```bash
+now
+```
+
+## The idea behind the example
+
+This example uses a custom `.babelrc` to add support for importing `.svg` files and rendering them as React components. [babel-plugin-inline-react-svg](https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-inline-react-svg) is used to handle transpiling the SVGs.
diff --git a/examples/svg-components/package.json b/examples/svg-components/package.json
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+{
+ "name": "svg-components",
+ "version": "1.0.0",
+ "scripts": {
+ "dev": "next",
+ "build": "next build",
+ "start": "next start"
+ },
+ "dependencies": {
+ "next": "beta"
+ },
+ "devDependencies": {
+ "babel-plugin-inline-react-svg": "^0.2.0"
+ }
+}
diff --git a/examples/svg-components/pages/index.js b/examples/svg-components/pages/index.js
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+import React from 'react'
+import Cat from '../svgs/cat.svg'
+
+export default () => (
+
+
+
+
+
+)
diff --git a/examples/svg-components/svgs/cat.svg b/examples/svg-components/svgs/cat.svg
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+
+
+
+