Add pagination or infinite scroll to blog page

[coding-in-public]

I was thinking pagination? It's pretty easy to do in Astro. If we do pagination, how many posts do you want on each page?

[jsjoeio]

Lol I don't have a good reason but I'm kinda against it 😂 Reasons:

• I don't want to have to manage the pages meaning like having page 1 and page 2, etc
• the person i look up to doesn't have it 😂 https://bloggingfordevs.com/blog
• i don't think i use pagination in any of my daily life besides navigating to the next page in a bank statement or transactions on my bank page?

so i'd learn for infinite scroll honestly and maybe do like load 4 at a time?

plus with our beautiful search in place, you can just search!

[coding-in-public]

Totally makes sense. We could also just show the latest 9–10 posts? then…

• if you add tags or categories to each post, we could have a filter section? Click a filter and show only those posts?
• trust the search widget to do everything else?

Something like this?

[jsjoeio]

That looks great! I love the sound of that. Then I can start tagging posts with things like:

• vocabulary
• expressions
• culture
• exercises
• resources

[coding-in-public]

Cool! I have an idea…what if we shall all posts by default, and then let people filter by categories. This is a sample just using SSR and query params. Thoughts? Obviously, we’d also have a search field, too? Also, I'm thinking we turn the /search route just into a blog with the search param? Does that make sense? Thoughts?

https://github.com/jsjoeio/speak-argentinian-spanish/assets/86967271/8983f7b2-2091-46bc-9bea-bce244032d6b

[jsjoeio]

I think that makes sense! I like that because:

• tags are now just a query param (i don't have to maintain a separate page or template)
• it's linkable

Let's do it!