Using AdonisJS Lucid ORM paginate for efficient list responses
Learn how AdonisJS Lucid ORM's paginate method returns data with pagination metadata, see a concrete route example, and understand its limits and typical pitfalls.
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Learn how AdonisJS Lucid ORM's paginate method returns data with pagination metadata, see a concrete route example, and understand its limits and typical pitfalls.
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Lucid's paginate() handles most AdonisJS list endpoints out of the box. The real decisions are capping client-supplied page sizes in one place and knowing when offset pagination stops scaling.