API Usage Question

[David Sargrad]

When I issue a request for /api/categories.. I seem to get everything in the category.. Am I seeing this correctly? If so, isnt this a performance issue?

I will have a similar question relative to other api requests where I begin to drill into topics within a category: e.g. https://try.nodebb.org/api/category/{category_id}/{slug}

In the following I ask for "category 2", and I see the full history of posts in that category.

How should I be drilling into the API to ensure that performance does not degrade as the database of posts and topics grows?

[baris]

All of these end points are paginated so they return 20 topics. Take a look at https://community.nodebb.org/api/category/2 this category has 3k+ topics

[David Sargrad]

@baris quite nice.. great answer!

[David Sargrad]

Looking at
https://try.nodebb.org/api/category/{category_id}/{slug}/{topic_index}

How do I query the "nth" page?

[baris]

/api/category/2?page=2 should do it

[David Sargrad]

@baris !! Cool