Pagination in MongoDB: Right Way to Do it VS Common Mistakes

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Hey @steevej,

Thanks for sharing that article. I just checked it. :smiley:

I personally don’t like 2 things from that approach:

  1. You can only fetch the next batch based on current batch, which means you have to start from the first page in order to get the second, and so on. If you want to jump directly to page 5 for example, you can not do it.
  2. Frontend app will not get the total number of items, which is really important for UX in many applications.

I would say that article covers only specific use-case, and not the pagination in general. But it’s definitely a nice solution for the use-case it covers. :smiley:

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