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+# Vue Meta Examples
+
+## Prepare examples
+
+To prepare the examples to run locally, please follow these steps:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/nuxt/vue-meta
+cd examples
+yarn install
+```
+
+## Run the examples
+
+When the examples are installed locally, start the example server as follows
+
+```js
+yarn start
+// or
+HOST=0.0.0.0 PORT=8080 yarn start
+```
+and browse to `http://localhost:3000` or whatever you changed the host and port to
+
+### SSR Example
+
+The server side rendering example is available on the cli only, to run the SSR example just run
+
+```bash
+yarn ssr
+```
+
+## Developing
+
+If you would like to use the examples while developing or debugging `vue-meta` features or issues, please do as follows
+
+```js
+git clone https://github.com/nuxt/vue-meta
+yarn install
+cd examples
+yarn install
+yarn dev
+```