This package is an experiment that adds pagination to Meteor's standard subscriptions. It's a byproduct of the Telescope project.
Install via Meteorite:
$ mrt add paginated-subscriptionThis package makes available a single function Meteor.subscribeWithPagination. Like the built in Meteor.subscribe, it returns a handle, which should be used to keep track of the state of the subscription:
var handle = Meteor.subscribeWithPagination('posts', 10);The arguments are as usual to Meteor.subscribe, with an exception:
- The last argument must be a number, indicating the number of documents per page.
This can be followed by callback functions in style of
Meteor.subscribe.
The paginated subscription expects you to have a publication setup, as normal, which expects as a final argument the current number of documents to display (which will be incremented, in a infinite scroll fashion):
Meteor.publish('posts', function(limit) {
return Posts.find({}, {limit: limit});
});The important part of all this is the handle, which has the following API:
handle.loaded()- how many documents are currently loaded via the subhandle.limit()- how many have we asked forhandle.ready()- are we waiting on the server right now?handle.loadNextPage()- fetch the next page of results
The first three functions are reactive and thus can be used to correctly display an 'infinite-scroll' like list of results. Please see the telescope project for an example of real-world usage.
Contributions are heavily encouraged. The obvious things to fix are:
- Do actual "pagination" rather than "infinite scroll" -- i.e. have an option to pass around an offset as well as limit.
- Tests, tests, tests
Please contact me if you want to have a go at these and I'll be happy to help in what ways I can.
MIT (c) Tom Coleman