Paginated queries: cursor fixes, document ID tiebreaker, and a realtime pagination recipe

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Adds first-class pagination support, modeled on how the official FirebaseUI libraries do it: FlutterFire UI's FirestoreQueryBuilder (growing-limit realtime pagination) and FirebaseUI-Android's Paging 3 adapter (forward-only cursor pages).

Changes

Fix: Effect DateTime values now encode to Firestore Timestamps

Decoded models expose timestamp fields as Effect DateTime values, but firestoreEncode (client and admin) didn't recognize them — so passing e.g. post.createdAt as a query cursor via Query.startAfter silently encoded it as a mangled plain object and matched nothing. Both converters now encode DateTime to a native Timestamp, making Query.addStartAfter(lastPost.createdAt) just work.

New: Query.orderByDocumentId / addOrderByDocumentId

Emits the __name__ sentinel field path (accepted by both the client and admin SDKs). Ordering by document ID as a secondary key lets startAfter take the last document's ID as a second cursor value, so pages never skip or repeat documents when the primary order field has duplicate values:

pipe(
  Query.orderBy('createdAt', 'desc'),
  Query.addOrderByDocumentId('desc'),
  Query.addStartAfter(lastCreatedAt, lastDocId),
  Query.addLimit(20),
);

New: makePaginatedQueryAtom (example app)

A writable atom packaging the growing-limit pattern from FlutterFire UI's FirestoreQueryBuilder: reading yields { items, hasMore, isFetchingMore }, writing grows the window by one page. It subscribes with limit(pages * pageSize + 1) — the probe row makes hasMore exact and is never surfaced — and the whole window is a single live listener, so the list stays realtime with no cursor stitching and no gaps/duplicates when documents shift between pages. fetchMore is guarded against re-entry and exhausted lists; isFetchingMore derives from the rows atom's waiting flag.

The Firestore CRUD example's post list now paginates with a Load more button. Lives in example/app/src/lib/pagination.ts for now; promoting it to a package is a follow-up once the API has settled.

Docs

New Pagination section in REACT.md covering both recipes — realtime infinite loading (growing limit) and prev/next page buttons (cursor stack of one-shot page atoms) — plus notes on cursor encoding, document ID tiebreaking, and exact hasMore detection. The package README shows the tiebreaker query.

Testing

• New unit tests: DateTime encoding in both converters, orderByDocumentId constraint construction, and three component tests for the paginated post list (mock layer honoring the Limit constraint: window growth, hasMore cutoff, empty state).
• Verified both SDKs accept the __name__ field path with a two-value startAfter at query-build time.
• Full nx run-many -t test lint build green across all 7 projects.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added realtime pagination with “Load more” support for Firestore feeds.
  • Added cursor-based navigation with reliable document-ID tie-breaking and visibility of loading and availability states.
  • Added support for ordering Firestore results by document ID.

• Bug Fixes

  • Effect DateTime values now encode correctly as Firestore timestamps, including nested objects and arrays.

• Documentation

  • Expanded pagination guidance, examples, cursor behavior, reactivity, and implementation caveats.

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Changes

Firestore pagination

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document-ID cursor support packages/effect-firebase/src/lib/firestore/query/query.ts, packages/effect-firebase/src/lib/firestore/query/query.spec.ts, packages/effect-firebase/README.md, REACT.md	Added document-ID ordering APIs, cursor composition tests, and cursor pagination guidance.
Realtime pagination flow example/app/src/lib/pagination.ts, example/app/src/lib/atoms.ts, example/app/src/routes/firestore.tsx, example/app/src/__tests__/firestore.test.tsx, REACT.md	Added growing-limit pagination with lookahead-based hasMore, loading state, a “Load more” control, mock query limits, and tests.

Effect DateTime encoding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
DateTime Firestore conversion packages/client/src/lib/firestore/converter.ts, packages/client/src/lib/firestore/converter.spec.ts, packages/admin/src/lib/firestore/converter.ts, packages/admin/src/lib/firestore/converter.spec.ts	Firestore encoders now convert Effect DateTime values to timestamps. Tests cover direct, nested, array, and admin values.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0b66d

The pagination documentation can produce skipped or repeated rows when documents share the same ordering timestamp, and the example helper does not reject invalid page sizes, which can prevent pagination from progressing. The README example also needs its missing import fixed, so merge should wait for these bounded issues to be addressed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PostList
  participant paginatedPostsAtom
  participant PostRepository.queryStream
  participant MockFirestore
  PostList->>paginatedPostsAtom: request fetchMore
  paginatedPostsAtom->>PostRepository.queryStream: stream query with growing limit
  PostRepository.queryStream->>MockFirestore: apply Limit constraint
  MockFirestore-->>PostRepository.queryStream: return limited snapshots
  PostRepository.queryStream-->>paginatedPostsAtom: return items and lookahead row
  paginatedPostsAtom-->>PostList: update items, hasMore, and isFetchingMore

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Poem

A rabbit taps “Load more” with care
Five bright posts hop through the air
Cursors guide the next small stream
Dates become timestamps in the beam
The button rests when pages are done

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In `@example/app/src/lib/pagination.ts`:
- Around line 53-56: Validate options.pageSize as a positive safe integer before
creating pageCountAtom and rowsAtom, rejecting zero, negative, fractional, and
non-finite values. Ensure invalid values cannot reach the options.stream limit
calculation in the rowsAtom initializer.

In `@packages/effect-firebase/README.md`:
- Around line 90-99: Update the README pagination example using pipe to include
the missing pipe import from effect before the example, while preserving the
existing Query imports and usage.

In `@REACT.md`:
- Around line 319-340: The postsPageAtom pagination recipe must use a
deterministic document-ID tiebreaker for identical createdAt values. Add
Query.addOrderByDocumentId('desc'), change the cursor-stack entries to retain
the final row’s timestamp and document ID, and pass both cursor values to
Query.addStartAfter while preserving the existing forward/pop-back stack
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Greptile Summary

This PR adds reliable Firestore pagination primitives and an example of realtime growing-limit pagination while correcting Effect DateTime cursor encoding.

• Encodes Effect DateTime values as native Firestore timestamps in client and admin converters.
• Adds document-ID ordering as a deterministic pagination tiebreaker.
• Updates the mock query engine to resolve the __name__ sentinel to snapshot IDs.
• Adds a paginated example atom, UI controls, tests, and pagination documentation.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge.

No blocking failure remains.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
example/app/src/lib/pagination.ts	Introduces a guarded writable atom implementing realtime growing-limit pagination with an exact probe-row calculation.
example/app/src/routes/firestore.tsx	Replaces the fixed post stream with the paginated atom and adds a loading-aware Load more control.
packages/client/src/lib/firestore/converter.ts	Converts Effect DateTime cursor and document values into client Firestore timestamps.
packages/admin/src/lib/firestore/converter.ts	Converts Effect DateTime values into admin Firestore timestamps.
packages/effect-firebase/src/lib/firestore/query/query.ts	Adds standalone and pipeable document-ID ordering constraints using Firestore’s __name__ sentinel.
packages/mock/src/lib/firestore/query-filter.ts	Correctly resolves explicit document-ID ordering from snapshot references, fixing the previously reported empty-result behavior.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    UI[Post list] -->|Initial read| Atom[Paginated query atom]
    Atom -->|limit = pages × pageSize + 1| Stream[Realtime Firestore stream]
    Stream --> Rows[Rows plus probe row]
    Rows --> Visible[Expose visible rows]
    Rows --> More{Probe row exists?}
    More -->|Yes| Button[Show Load more]
    More -->|No| Done[Pagination exhausted]
    Button -->|Click| Grow[Increment page count]
    Grow --> Atom

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