Paginator

Paginator library in NodeJS to facilitate REST pagination

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Tips and tricks
  • Append queries string to URL
  • Add fragment to URL
• Licence

Installation

npm install --save @ssense/node-paginator

Usage

import { Paginator } from '@ssense/node-paginator';

const items = ['item1', 'item2', 'item3']; // from your DB returned collection...
const perPage = 1;
const currentPage = 2;
const paginator: Paginator = new Paginator(items, items.length, perPage, currentPage);

// Transform paginator to object, use this as rour REST response
const paginated = paginator.transform();

console.log(paginated);
/*
output
{
    total: 3,
    per_page: 1,
    current_page: 2,
    last_page: 3,
    from: 2,
    to: 4,
    links:{
        previous: '/?page=1&foo=bar#foobar',
        current: '/?page=2&foo=bar#foobar',
        next: '/?page=3&foo=bar#foobar'
    },
    data: [ 'item1', 'item2', 'item3' ]
}
*/

Tips and tricks

Append queries string to URL

// Append one query string to URL
paginator.append('key', 'value');

// Appends multiple queries to URL
paginator.appends({
    foo: 'bar'
});

Add fragment to URL

// Add foobar fragment to URL
paginator.fragment('foobar');

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.