Limit amount of links shown with Laravel pagination

Question

Any easy way to limit how many links are shown with Laravels pagination?

Currently it shows 13 links at most (Prev, 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 .. 78 79 next)

This however

Answer 1

The old way of defining a custom presenter doesn't work with Laravel 5.3+, the number of links shown seems to be hard-coded in the $onEachSide parameter of Illuminate/Pagination/UrlWindow::make():

public static function make(PaginatorContract $paginator, $onEachSide = 3)

I ended up just writing my own render() function, stealing some code from LengthAwarePaginator

/**
 * Stole come code from LengthAwarePaginator::render() and ::elements() to allow for a smaller UrlWindow
 *
 * @param LengthAwarePaginator $paginator
 * @param int $onEachSide
 * @return string
 */
public static function render(LengthAwarePaginator $paginator, $onEachSide = 2)
{
    $window = UrlWindow::make($paginator, $onEachSide);

    $elements = array_filter([
        $window['first'],
        is_array($window['slider']) ? '...' : null,
        $window['slider'],
        is_array($window['last']) ? '...' : null,
        $window['last'],
    ]);

    return LengthAwarePaginator::viewFactory()->make(LengthAwarePaginator::$defaultView, [
        'paginator' => $paginator,
        'elements' => $elements,
    ])->render();
}

}

We use Twig, so I registered this as a Twig filter, I imagine something similar could be done for Blade.