Paginate-it

This is utility package for handling backend pagination with expressJs and Mongoose

installation

using npm:

$ npm install paginate-it

usage

in your file:

// import the main package
const { paginate } = require('paginate-it');
const City = require('cityModel')



// use the function inside your route handling function
app.get('/api/city', (req, res) => {

    // You have to provide your mongoose model and the req object
    const { pagesNum, docs } = async paginate({ model: City, req });

	res.json({ pagesNum, docs });

})

Properties

• model | MongooseModel: Mongoose model that you want to paginate a query from. (required)
• req | Express req: Express req object (required)
• query | Object: object with the query params like in the Model.find({})
• population | String: the property that you want to paginate

Request Query Params

• limit: Number of the item in single page (Default: 9)

• page: The number of the page you want (Default: 1)

  BaseURL/city?page=2&limit=10