Sorting and pagination of unknown data set

1. How does sorting work with pagination?
2. Should sorting reset pagination?
3. What does it mean to paginate data?
4. What is proper pagination?

How does sorting work with pagination?

The sorting mechanism places the resources in order; the pagination mechanism then returns a specific range of those ordered resources. You control sorting and pagination through URL query parameters.

Should sorting reset pagination?

Order of data transformation

You can see that both filtering and sorting come before pagination. This means that whenever the order changes (sort), you should repaginate.

What does it mean to paginate data?

Pagination is the process of separating print or digital content into discrete pages. For print documents and some online content, pagination also refers to the automated process of adding consecutive numbers to identify the sequential order of pages.

What is proper pagination?

Pagination is simply a manner of ordering sequential pages which are contextually connected, to provide continuity to both users and search engines. It is accomplished by placing rel=“prev” and rel=“next” attributes in the head of each page in the series.