Paginating responses in Django and DRF
When a request is sent by the client to fetch records from the server, it is not recommended to send all the entries present in the database in one go. This is when the concept of pagination comes into the picture. For example, if we have 1,000 blogs saved, sending all the blogs at once in response to the client’s request would increase the page load time and add performance bottlenecks to the system. To solve these problems, we will introduce the concept of pagination.
Understanding pagination
Let us take an example to understand the concept of pagination. A client requests to get a list of blogs, and we have 1,000+ blogs published on our website. We would send a few blogs in small batches, say 10 blogs every time. This is known as pagination. The user would interact with the UI and request the next batch of blogs. Different types of pagination can be implemented by the server for the API:
- Cursor API pagination
- Keyset...
