Phase 9 · API Design

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Pagination

Part of the Backend Developer Roadmap.

Summary

Splitting large result sets into pages so clients don't have to fetch (and you don't have to serve) thousands of rows at once — offset-based or cursor-based.

How to Learn This

  • 1Implement offset/limit pagination on a listing endpoint.
  • 2Implement cursor-based pagination and compare its consistency guarantees to offset-based.
  • 3Return pagination metadata (total count, next cursor) in a consistent response shape.
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