Thanks for the kind words @roblevintennis :)
Surely there are better ways to implement a Pagination React hook than what I did, and yours does looks like a more robust one. My goal in the article was to focus on the TDD aspect of developing such custom component, so it was never meant to be a complete Pagination solution :)
Having said that, I am not sure how I feel about the Hook supplying the array of links... In my case the hook is much "dumber" in the sense that I leave the buffering (and in your case, the offset ) to be something that the consuming component should take care of.
As for the cyclic nature of the pagination, you're right, this is more of a carousel kinda feature, but heck, why not? ;)
In any case, thanks for sharing your approach!
Gotcha, yeah, there are probably many viable approached — I'd say again that your tutorial on setting up the TDD test bed really really helped and was quite valuable! Not sure if you've ever read Kent Beck's TDD by example? But I have had a long love/hate with unit tests but one case where I feel they shine is when you feel a bit uncertain as to how to go about something and, for me, implementing pagination is quite a challenge indeed!
Good stuff…the dev world is definitely better when we share these ideas! Thanks :)
Thanks for the kind words @roblevintennis :)
Surely there are better ways to implement a Pagination React hook than what I did, and yours does looks like a more robust one. My goal in the article was to focus on the TDD aspect of developing such custom component, so it was never meant to be a complete Pagination solution :)
Having said that, I am not sure how I feel about the Hook supplying the array of links... In my case the hook is much "dumber" in the sense that I leave the buffering (and in your case, the offset ) to be something that the consuming component should take care of.
As for the cyclic nature of the pagination, you're right, this is more of a carousel kinda feature, but heck, why not? ;)
In any case, thanks for sharing your approach!
Gotcha, yeah, there are probably many viable approached — I'd say again that your tutorial on setting up the TDD test bed really really helped and was quite valuable! Not sure if you've ever read Kent Beck's TDD by example? But I have had a long love/hate with unit tests but one case where I feel they shine is when you feel a bit uncertain as to how to go about something and, for me, implementing pagination is quite a challenge indeed!
Good stuff…the dev world is definitely better when we share these ideas! Thanks :)
Cannot agree more :)