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 Without any changes, this app is connected to a Contentful space with read-only access. To experience the full end-to-end Contentful experience, you need to connect the app to a Contentful space with read _and_ write access. This enables you to see how content editing in the Contentful web app works and how content changes propagate to this app.
 
 ## Common setup
+You can clone the space for this example app to your own Contentful account by using our CLI tool.
+
+```
+contentful space seed -s '<SPACE_ID>' -t the-example-app
+```
+
+If you do not have the Contentful CLI installed you can find instructions on installation and usage [here](https://www.npmjs.com/package/contentful-cli). For more information on the content model check out [this repo](https://github.com/contentful/content-models/tree/master/the-example-app/README.md). 
+
+Once you’ve created a space, you can change the credentials in the variables.env. If you don’t feel like changing code immediately, you can also inject credentials via url parameters like so:
 
 Clone the repo and install the dependencies.