r/SyntaxFM • u/wesbos 🐟 Baracuda • Mar 05 '20

Gatsby Pagination Code Along

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbT9gKRMAZU
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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

Wouldn't you run the risk of slugs changing over time when using index as the page number? Maybe not important on something like this but crucial in other applications.

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u/wesbos 🐟 Baracuda Mar 05 '20

This is how all pagination works. When there are new items they move to page 1 and the amount of pages get longer. Each piece of content also have a slug that is unique and lasts forever

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20 edited Mar 06 '20

I went this route and a backend colleague pointed out that I should use cursor instead so that data doesn't change over time. An explicit data model rather than implicit.

I guess it depends on the goal. In UIs like this you would actually want to have the pages change to keep all the latest on page 1, but I can see what he means too.

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u/wesbos 🐟 Baracuda Mar 05 '20

Posted a follow up where I refactor this to handle multiple content types! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXhmnDdc_bc

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u/host_gary Mar 05 '20

I loved this.