Paginate Javascript array

I saw an example above that did this correctly (kind of) and wanted to expand on it.

This was the example.

function paginate(array, page_size, page_number) {
  // human-readable page numbers usually start with 1, so we reduce 1 in the first argument
  return array.slice((page_number - 1) * page_size, page_number * page_size);
}

There are a few things wrong with this.

1.) If the page_number is 0 then it will try and set the starting split at -1 * page_size which returns an empty array. So the minimum value of the page_number attr should be 1, never anything less unless you handle that case in the function.

2.) The starting and ending index of the split are the same. Because of this, you get back an empty array. So the split should be:

return array.split(page_number * page_size, page_number * page_size + page_size)


const myArray = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10];

const paginateBad1 = (array, page_size, page_number) => {
  return array.slice((page_number - 1) * page_size, page_number * page_size);
};

const paginateBad2 = (array, page_size, page_number) => {
  return array.slice(page_number * page_size, page_number * page_size);
};

const paginateGood = (array, page_size, page_number) => {
  return array.slice(page_number * page_size, page_number * page_size + page_size);
};

console.log("Bad 1", paginateBad1(myArray, 2, 0));
console.log("Bad 2", paginateBad2(myArray, 2, 1));
console.log("Good", paginateGood(myArray, 2, 1));

You can use Array.prototype.slice and just supply the params for (start, end).

function paginate(array, page_size, page_number) {
  // human-readable page numbers usually start with 1, so we reduce 1 in the first argument
  return array.slice((page_number - 1) * page_size, page_number * page_size);
}

console.log(paginate([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], 2, 2));
console.log(paginate([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11], 4, 1));

Here's a solution with reduce():

function paginate (arr, size) {
  return arr.reduce((acc, val, i) => {
    let idx = Math.floor(i / size)
    let page = acc[idx] || (acc[idx] = [])
    page.push(val)

    return acc
  }, [])
}

let array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
let page_size = 2
let pages = paginate(array, page_size)

console.log(pages)    // all pages
console.log(pages[1]) // second page

It returns an array of pages so you can get a certain page, or loop through all of them.

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Javascript

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Pagination

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