Firestore + AngularFire2 pagination ( query items by range - .startAfter(lastVisible) )

Question

In a component I want to pull a range of items from FireStore, for ex. from 0 to 5, from 5 to 10 etc. I found this in FireStore\'s docs, but they dont use AngularFire2 so as

Answer 1

I had the same Problem and this is what i did.

Service

private _data: BehaviorSubject;
public data: Observable;
latestEntry: any;

constructor(private afs: AngularFirestore) {}

// You need to return the doc to get the current cursor.
  getCollection(ref, queryFn?): Observable {
    return this.afs.collection(ref, queryFn).snapshotChanges().map(actions => {
      return actions.map(a => {
        const data = a.payload.doc.data();
        const id = a.payload.doc.id;
        const doc = a.payload.doc;
        return { id, ...data, doc };
      });
    });
  }
// In your first query you subscribe to the collection and save the latest entry
 first() {
  this._data = new BehaviorSubject([]);
  this.data = this._data.asObservable();

  const scoresRef = this.getCollection('scores', ref => ref
    .orderBy('score', 'desc')
    .limit(6))
    .subscribe(data => {
      this.latestEntry = data[data.length - 1].doc;
      this._data.next(data);
    });
  }

  next() {
    const scoresRef = this.getCollection('scores', ref => ref
      .orderBy('scores', 'desc')
       // Now you can use the latestEntry to query with startAfter
      .startAfter(this.latestEntry)
      .limit(6))
      .subscribe(data => {
        if (data.length) {
          // And save it again for more queries
          this.latestEntry = data[data.length - 1].doc;
          this._data.next(data);
        }
      });
  }

Component

  scores$: Observable;
  ...
  ngOnInit() {
    this.yourService.first();
    this.scores$ = this.yourService.data;
  }

  nextPage() {
   this.yourService.next();
  }