Pagination

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GraphQL API Best Practices

Practical guidance for designing GraphQL schemas and servers: typed schemas, pagination, error handling, query cost limits, and avoiding the N+1 problem.

Best Practice

API Pagination Best Practices

Techniques for returning large result sets in pages without breaking under concurrent writes: offset, cursor (keyset), and page-token pagination, with stable ordering.

Anti-Patterns1

Anti-Pattern

Unbounded Result Sets

Querying without a LIMIT and loading entire growing tables into memory, so a query that was fine at launch crashes the app as data accumulates.

Tutorials1

Tutorial

How to Add Cursor-Based Pagination to a REST API

Replace offset pagination with stable cursor pagination, return navigation links, and keep results consistent under concurrent writes.

Glossaries1

Glossary

Pagination

Pagination is the practice of dividing a large result set into smaller, ordered pages so that an API returns data in manageable chunks rather than all at once.