Article pagination

[JHay0112]

At the time of writing this ticket, there are 20 articles on my website. This seems like a good place to start paginating the articles listing, as seeing this many articles one one page is plenty. The purpose of this ticket is to add pagination to my website, with the following requirements:

1. Pagination of articles shall be automatic as a part of the static site generation.
2. The article listing shall be paginated and available at URIs of the form /articles/page/<page-number>.
3. The URI https://jordanhay.com/articles shall show the first page of articles.
4. Page controls shall be available at the top and bottom of each article listing sub-page.
5. Each page shall prefetch the pages before and after it in the article listing.

[JHay0112]

Seems like the current state of pagination in Jekyll/Github pages is relatively unchanged since I look at this years ago. Github pages supports only jekyll-paginate which works solely on Jekyll posts and does not support jekyll-paginate-v2 which supports pagination on all collections (https://github.com/sverrirs/jekyll-paginate-v2).

This is a frustrating limitation that makes this ticket part of the larger scope of "what to do about the website generation?". Not a topic that I really want to tackle if I can avoid it, but considering how out of date Jekyll is it may be necessary (take the build instructions I have to follow for example).