Stop Using Offset for Firestore Lists: Use Cursors
Offset paging in Firestore scales poorly. Use limit with startAfter and a stable orderBy to paginate by cursor, keep client state minimal, and accept the consistency trade-offs of anchored pages.
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Offset paging in Firestore scales poorly. Use limit with startAfter and a stable orderBy to paginate by cursor, keep client state minimal, and accept the consistency trade-offs of anchored pages.
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Goal Retrieve a database containing over 10,000 rows while respecting the Notion API’s 100‑item page size and 3 req/s rate limit. Constraint Sequential cursor pagination is required for large sets, but it may become invalid if concurrent writes or schema changes occur. Filtering can reduce the result set before pagination, yet complex filters may not use ind