Pagination: Server Side or Client Side?

Question

What is it best to handle pagination? Server side or doing it dynamically using javascript?

I\'m working on a project which is heavy on the ajax and pulling in data

Answer 1

Doing it on client side will make your user download all the data at first which might not be needed, and will remove the primary benefit of pagination.

The best way to do so for such kind of AJAX apps is to make AJAX call the server for next page and add update the current page using client side script.