Paginated lists are one of the most common patterns in frontend development. A hand-written implementation — with state management for page, pageSize, total, loading, error, and handlers for pagination, search debounce, and item mutations — easily reaches 50+ lines. alova's usePagination hook collapses this into roughly 3 lines of configuration. This article examines how the abstraction works and where it fits.
The Hand-Written Baseline
Here's a standard paginated list written with Vue 3 and Axios:
const list = ref([]);
const loading = ref(false);
