API Pagination, Filtering & Sorting
Make your SaaS API scale by returning large datasets in pages, letting clients filter and sort results, and exposing consistent query parameters.
Why Not Return Everything?
An endpoint that returns 50,000 rows is slow, heavy, and crashes clients. Pagination returns data in manageable chunks, while filtering and sorting let clients ask for exactly what they need.
Offset Pagination
The simplest approach uses page and limit. You skip (page - 1) * limit rows and take limit rows.
GET /api/users?page=2&limit=20All lessons in this course
- RESTful API Design Principles
- Database Schema & ORM
- First API Endpoints
- API Pagination, Filtering & Sorting