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Building a Custom Pagination System for API Responses

Tutorial November 16, 2024
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   {
       "data": [
           { "id": 1, "title": "Post 1" },
           { "id": 2, "title": "Post 2" }
       ],
       "meta": {
           "current_page": 1,
           "per_page": 10,
           "total": 50,
           "last_page": 5
       },
       "links": {
           "next": "http://example.com/api/posts?page=2",
           "previous": null
       }
   }
  • Cursor-based pagination is faster for large datasets since it avoids calculating offsets.
  • Instead of page numbers, it uses a cursor (e.g., a timestamp or ID) to fetch the next set of results.