Pagination with Relative Cursors

When requesting multiple pages of records from a server the simple implementation is to have an incremental page number in the URL. Starting at page one, each subsequent request that’s sent has a page number that’s one greater than the previous. The problem is that incremental page numbers scale poorly—the bigger the page number, the slower the query. The simple solution is relative cursor pagination because it remembers where you were and continues from that point onwards instead. The Problem A...

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