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# An Apology about my Nuget Package

<datetime class="hidden">2025-03-20T21:30</datetime>

# Introduction
Well I've been playing with a nuget package for doing [paging stuff in ASP.NET](https://www.nuget.org/packages/mostlylucid.pagingtaghelper/) and well I never thought there'd be 1.7k downloads. I thoght not making a 1.0 version would make it clear that it was a bit of a toy but I guess not.

# SO FAR
So far in 10 days I've released *20* versions of the damn thing. It's grown from a simple replacement for an old paging tag helper I had been using but stopped working for me to...well as of a few minutes ago, *3* whole tag helpers:
1. Paging - just the page numbers thing with Page Size drop down and HTMX / Tailwind & DaisyUI integration.
2. Flippy Table Headers- anotheritch I scratched, I was always annoyed I didn't have a *free* easy way to sort data in tables with a nice UI...so...
3. Page Size Tag Helper - Just TODAY I had an issue as I'm building a little admin site which uses Cosmos - which doesn't let you page through data in 'jumps' (as umm...it's globally scalable or some shit). So now there's ANOTHER tag helper.

But I have to admit; I have a [sample site ](https://taghelpersample.mostlylucid.net/) but it's ALL VERY ROUGH still. Writing docs, building examples etc is a bit of a drag and I need to find time to do it!.

# FUTURE
WHO KNOWS, I wrote the Umami.NET package a few months ago now and well, it works...so I don't really see any reason to keep grinding on it. PLEASE if you have anything you want to see (or if you want to write docs...please JEBUS). [Take a look at the GH!](https://github.com/scottgal/mostlylucid.pagingtaghelper)

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An Apology about my Nuget Package

Thursday, 20 March 2025

Introduction

Well I've been playing with a nuget package for doing paging stuff in ASP.NET and well I never thought there'd be 1.7k downloads. I thoght not making a 1.0 version would make it clear that it was a bit of a toy but I guess not.

SO FAR

So far in 10 days I've released 20 versions of the damn thing. It's grown from a simple replacement for an old paging tag helper I had been using but stopped working for me to...well as of a few minutes ago, 3 whole tag helpers:

Paging - just the page numbers thing with Page Size drop down and HTMX / Tailwind & DaisyUI integration.
Flippy Table Headers- anotheritch I scratched, I was always annoyed I didn't have a free easy way to sort data in tables with a nice UI...so...
Page Size Tag Helper - Just TODAY I had an issue as I'm building a little admin site which uses Cosmos - which doesn't let you page through data in 'jumps' (as umm...it's globally scalable or some shit). So now there's ANOTHER tag helper.

But I have to admit; I have a sample site but it's ALL VERY ROUGH still. Writing docs, building examples etc is a bit of a drag and I need to find time to do it!.

FUTURE

WHO KNOWS, I wrote the Umami.NET package a few months ago now and well, it works...so I don't really see any reason to keep grinding on it. PLEASE if you have anything you want to see (or if you want to write docs...please JEBUS). Take a look at the GH!

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