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Paging support

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- [Instructor] The next way you can filter data with LoopBack is by paging. Paging as a concept is basically the idea of returning one set of data. If we have 100 cats, for example, we may want to return 10 at a time, not all 100. In LoopBack, this is done using a few things. The first is limit. This simply restricts the total number of results. You can use this without paging if you simply want to ensure you don't ever return too many results. Skip is how you do paging in terms of getting page two, three, and so forth. It simply means, start returning results after skipping the first so many. Finally, to do paging, you need to know how many values you have in total. LoopBack provides a simple way of doing that. To limit, it's a pretty simple syntax and follows the format that we've been using before. By adding this query string value to the URL, we can tell it to only return X many results. Let's try this. In this example, I've done filter limit equals five, and you can see that I…

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