Pagination

In the testing environment, we may only have a few developers putting recipes on the Smilecook platform. There are only a handful of recipes there and performance is never a concern. However, in the production environment, that is, after the platform has been launched for public use, there could be thousands of users sharing recipes on the platform. If you consider social media platforms such as Facebook, then the volume will be even bigger.

That's why we need to introduce pagination. Pagination means instead of querying the whole population of records from the database, we just query a handful of them. When the user wants to see more, they can always go to the next page. For example, when you're browsing a shopping site, usually, you will view the items for sale a page at a time. Each page may display 40 items, and you have to navigate to subsequent pages to view all the items that are available. This is the nature of pagination.

The number of records that...