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How to paginate data in Supabase queries?

Discover easy methods to paginate data in Supabase queries through this detailed guide. Ensure seamless, well-organized data retrieval for your projects.

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Overview

Paginating data in Supabase queries is super important for handling big datasets. By splitting data into pages, it speeds up load times and makes things nicer for users. Basically, you get a chunk of data based on certain parameters, like limit and offset. Mastering pagination boosts your app's performance and scalability. This guide covers the basics and best practices using Supabase's built-in tools, ensuring efficient and scalable data management.

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How to paginate data in Supabase queries?

Step 1: Install Supabase Client

First things first, let's get the Supabase client installed in your project. This is super important for querying your database.

npm install @supabase/supabase-js

Step 2: Initialize Supabase Client

Now, let's create a Supabase client instance using your Supabase URL and public API key.

import { createClient } from '@supabase/supabase-js';

const supabaseUrl = 'https://xyzcompany.supabase.co';
const supabaseKey = 'public-anon-key';
const supabase = createClient(supabaseUrl, supabaseKey);

Step 3: Set Up Pagination Variables

Alright, let's define some variables for limit and page number to control pagination.

const limit = 10; // number of items per page
let page = 1; // start from the first page

Step 4: Perform Paginated Query

Now, we'll use the range method to specify the range of items for the current page. The start index is (page - 1) * limit and the end index is page * limit - 1.

async function fetchPaginatedData(page) {
  const start = (page - 1) * limit;
  const end = page * limit - 1;

  const { data, error } = await supabase
    .from('your_table_name')
    .select('*')
    .range(start, end);

  if (error) {
    console.error('Error fetching data:', error);
    return;
  }

  console.log('Paginated data:', data);
  return data;
}

fetchPaginatedData(page);

Step 5: Handling Pagination State

Let's add some logic to handle pagination state, like next and previous buttons.

document.getElementById('next').addEventListener('click', () => {
  page++;
  fetchPaginatedData(page);
});

document.getElementById('prev').addEventListener('click', () => {
  if (page > 1) {
    page--;
    fetchPaginatedData(page);
  }
});

Step 6: Display Paginated Data

Finally, let's render the paginated data to the user interface.

function renderData(data) {
  const container = document.getElementById('data-container');
  container.innerHTML = ''; // clear previous data

  data.forEach(item => {
    const div = document.createElement('div');
    div.textContent = JSON.stringify(item);
    container.appendChild(div);
  });
}

// Call renderData within fetchPaginatedData
async function fetchPaginatedData(page) {
  const start = (page - 1) * limit;
  const end = page * limit - 1;

  const { data, error } = await supabase
    .from('your_table_name')
    .select('*')
    .range(start, end);

  if (error) {
    console.error('Error fetching data:', error);
    return;
  }

  console.log('Paginated data:', data);
  renderData(data);
}

This guide gives you a complete flow from setting up the Supabase client to fetching and displaying paginated data in a web application. Feel free to tweak the steps based on your specific needs or any extra features you want to add.

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