diff --git a/content/docs/application.md b/content/docs/application.md
index 401df9f..8da3203 100644
--- a/content/docs/application.md
+++ b/content/docs/application.md
@@ -23,21 +23,7 @@ The prefix should consist of value path segments.
 > any request with the paths `/app`, `/app/`, or `/app/test` would match;
 > however, the path `/application` would not match.
 
-```rust
-# extern crate actix_web;
-# use actix_web::{App, Responder, HttpRequest, http::Method};
-
-fn index(req: HttpRequest) -> impl Responder {
-    "Hello world!"
-}
-
-fn main() {
-    let app = App::new()
-        .prefix("/app")
-        .resource("/index.html", |r| r.method(Method::GET).f(index))
-        .finish();
-}
-```
+{{< include-example example="application" section="setup" >}}
 
 In this example, an application with the `/app` prefix and a `index.html` resource
 are created. This resource is available through the `/app/index.html` url.
diff --git a/examples/.gitignore b/examples/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eb5a316
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+target
diff --git a/examples/Cargo.toml b/examples/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2cb1e30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[workspace]
+members = [
+  "application",
+]
diff --git a/examples/application/Cargo.toml b/examples/application/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0349037
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/application/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[package]
+name = "application"
+version = "0.1.0"
+
+[dependencies]
+actix-web = "0.6"
diff --git a/examples/application/src/main.rs b/examples/application/src/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..65442a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/application/src/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+extern crate actix_web;
+use actix_web::{App, Responder, HttpRequest, http::Method};
+
+// <setup>
+fn index(req: HttpRequest) -> impl Responder {
+    "Hello world!"
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let app = App::new()
+        .prefix("/app")
+        .resource("/index.html", |r| r.method(Method::GET).f(index))
+        .finish();
+}
+// </setup>
diff --git a/layouts/shortcodes/include-example.html b/layouts/shortcodes/include-example.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ca8b29d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layouts/shortcodes/include-example.html
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{{$example := .Get "example"}}
+{{$file := .Get "file" | default "main.rs"}}
+{{$section := .Get "section"}}
+{{$source := readFile (printf "examples/%s/src/%s" $example $file)}}
+{{$source := index (findRE (printf "(?ms)// <%s>$(.*?)// </%s>" $section $section) $source) 0 }}
+{{$source := trim (replaceRE "// <[^>]+>" "" $source) "\n" }}
+{{- highlight $source "rust" "" -}}