This is a short example on how to customise smart-table module so that you use server-side pagination (ie load data on demand) but keep logical operations (sort, filter, etc) on the client side (so only on the already loaded data)

The server provided by the angular seed has been changed a bit to return a random set of ten items on any POST request (see commit). Even if HTTP POST request is not the best semantic for our purpose, I have used it only because GET was already mapped (So it just for convenience purpose). Anyway, the only thing important here is to know that on any POST request the server will return a set of 10 items.

I strongly advice to read the dedicated paragraph on the README.md of the master branch before going further

##The few changes to do

1. Remove the binding to the dataCollection from the smart-table directives (in Directive.js) because the data won't come from the application anymore but from the server see commit (the only important file is Directive.js)

2. In Table.js inject a service as your HTTP interface ($http in my example), and change the this.changePage to load data from server if required see commit

3. On the main directive trigger the first load of data see commit.

4. That is (<10 lines), then you can add fine tuning (loading indicator, etc)

1. Launch the web server node web-server.js
2. Browse to your localhost

You can as well disable the build in pagination and reproduce it outside the table module. As the table is bound to a data collection ("rows" attribute on the directive element) any change on the bound collection will be propagated inside the table

Smart Table module is under MIT license:

Copyright (C) 2013 Laurent Renard.

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