I am new to firebase and a I am trying the pagination query. I like to have a 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons. My next button is working fine, my issue is when clicking Previous
Reference:
Currently, I have 10 documents on my collection and I like to display 3 at a time.
On load I display 3 items only
var first = db.collection("employees").limit(3);
first.get().then(function (documentSnapshots) {
documentSnapshots.docs.forEach(doc => {
//function to display in the HTML
renderEmployee(doc);
});
lastVisible = documentSnapshots.docs[documentSnapshots.docs.length - 1];
});
Next Button
$("#js-next").on('click', function () {
$('#employee-table tbody').html('');
var next = db.collection("employees")
.startAfter(lastVisible)
.limit(3);
next.get().then(function (documentSnapshots) {
documentSnapshots.docs.forEach(doc => {
//function to display in the HTML
renderEmployee(doc);
});
lastVisible = documentSnapshots.docs[documentSnapshots.docs.length - 1];
firstVisible = documentSnapshots.docs[documentSnapshots.docs.length - 1];
});
});
Previous (CODE PROBLEM)
$("#js-previous").on('click', function () {
$('#employee-table tbody').html('');
var previous = db.collection("employees")
.startAt(firstVisible)
.limit(3);
previous.get().then(function (documentSnapshots) {
documentSnapshots.docs.forEach(doc => {
renderEmployee(doc);
});
});
});
I am using the variable firstVisible at startAt and I am setting its value when clicking the next button but clicking it does not work as expected.
To be honest I am not sure what I need to set on the firstVisible variable to get the previous document snapshot
Any help will be appreciated
I am new to firebase and a I am trying the pagination query. I like to have a 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons. My next button is working fine, my issue is when clicking Previous
Reference: https://firebase.google./docs/firestore/query-data/query-cursors
Currently, I have 10 documents on my collection and I like to display 3 at a time.
On load I display 3 items only
var first = db.collection("employees").limit(3);
first.get().then(function (documentSnapshots) {
documentSnapshots.docs.forEach(doc => {
//function to display in the HTML
renderEmployee(doc);
});
lastVisible = documentSnapshots.docs[documentSnapshots.docs.length - 1];
});
Next Button
$("#js-next").on('click', function () {
$('#employee-table tbody').html('');
var next = db.collection("employees")
.startAfter(lastVisible)
.limit(3);
next.get().then(function (documentSnapshots) {
documentSnapshots.docs.forEach(doc => {
//function to display in the HTML
renderEmployee(doc);
});
lastVisible = documentSnapshots.docs[documentSnapshots.docs.length - 1];
firstVisible = documentSnapshots.docs[documentSnapshots.docs.length - 1];
});
});
Previous (CODE PROBLEM)
$("#js-previous").on('click', function () {
$('#employee-table tbody').html('');
var previous = db.collection("employees")
.startAt(firstVisible)
.limit(3);
previous.get().then(function (documentSnapshots) {
documentSnapshots.docs.forEach(doc => {
renderEmployee(doc);
});
});
});
I am using the variable firstVisible at startAt and I am setting its value when clicking the next button but clicking it does not work as expected.
To be honest I am not sure what I need to set on the firstVisible variable to get the previous document snapshot
Any help will be appreciated
Share Improve this question edited Aug 27, 2019 at 12:19 Doug Stevenson 318k36 gold badges454 silver badges472 bronze badges asked Aug 27, 2019 at 11:53 DaveDave 3033 silver badges20 bronze badges3 Answers
Reset to default 12$("#js-previous").on('click', function () {
$('#employee-table tbody').html('');
var previous = db.collection("employees")
.endBefore(firstVisible)
.limitToLast(3);
previous.get().then(function (documentSnapshots) {
documentSnapshots.docs.forEach(doc => {
renderEmployee(doc);
});
});
});
Try to use endBefore with limitToLast. limitToLast will return the last documents right before the first visible document. Hope this help!
Firestore pagination is based on knowing the anchor document: the document that the two pages involved are anchored on.
Usually this would be the last document of the current page, which is also the first document of the next page. Or actually if you'd use startAfter()
it'd be the document just before the next page.
But since you're paginating backwards, the anchor document is the first document on the current page, which is also the last document on the previous page. This means you'll need to:
- Reverse the sort order of the query.
- Start at (or after) the anchor document.
So something like:
var previous = db.collection("employees")
.orderBy(firebase.firestore.FieldPath.documentId(), "desc")
.startAt(firstVisible)
.limit(3);
Change startAt
to endBefore
:
$("#js-previous").on('click', function () {
$('#employee-table tbody').html('');
var previous = db.collection("employees")
.endBefore(firstVisible)
.limit(3);
previous.get().then(function (documentSnapshots) {
documentSnapshots.docs.forEach(doc => {
renderEmployee(doc);
});
});
});