My musing on web development, running, open source and many other things!
Pagination is necessary; you don’t want your API/website/app to default to returning everything from the database, occasionally though you might want to fetch the entire collection.
On the Costs to Expect API, we have added a collection parameter, if set true
There are a couple of caveats, the API defaults the parameter to false, and we only allow the parameter for collections which will know will be limited in size.
If I maintain the same development pace as the last eight weeks, I’m due to have a “Summer of fun”.
I’m two weeks away, one development iteration from a point in which I’ll be comfortable letting the Costs to Expect API and website run throughout the summer untouched.
They won’t be untouched; both the website and API are under active development; I’ll focus my energy on building the service, not the public website.
Dependant on your experience, as a developer, you don’t typically get to spend too much time working on new projects solving problems entirely new to you. Mid-way through July, that is me, I’m planning on locking myself in my office and getting down and dirty with my IDE, whiteboard, pen and paper.
My wife and children have told me that they have a very different idea on what a “Summer of fun” is; I’m guessing it is far less coding than my plan.