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Make auto-pagination use Relay's Cursor Connection Spec

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
graphql, typescript

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating graph-client's current auto-pagination behavior and comparing it with Relay's Cursor Connection Spec; done means adding compatible access to the specified connection structure without removing existing pagination methods.

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Description

enhancement

The Cursor Connection Spec has become a de-facto standard in the larger GraphQL ecosystem, as far as I can tell. I first learned about it when using Gatsby, which uses the modified version of the Cursor Connection Spec advocated in this blog post: GraphQL Pagination best practices: Using Edges vs Nodes in Connections (this is my favorite post I've seen on the topic, as it is brief and contains links to other resources).

I have found graph-client's auto pagination difficult to work with on the client side, and would enjoy the flexibility and power offered by the Cursor Connection Spec. I also think this could be built in a backwards-compatible way, adding additional ways to access paginated data if people want to, without removing the method of pagination they're already using.

If y'all agree this is worth trying, I'll have time in my schedule in mid-September to try to help add it.

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TypeScript
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