GraphQL Pagination at Meta

Sabrina WassermanMeta, Software Engineer

In this talk, I’ll discuss how we’ve developed client-side pagination frameworks at Meta on top of the Relay GraphQL connection specification to make paginating with GraphQL-backed data simpler for product engineers. Specifically, I’ll cover: - Cursor-based pagination + the Relay GraphQL Connection specification - Generating pagination queries for a given Connection field - Client-side Connection field state management - How we integrate our pagination frameworks with our UI frameworks