Dashboard pagination causes full page reloads on self-hosted Cap

[bryantgillespie]

Description

While testing a migration from Loom to self-hosted Cap, I noticed that pagination in the My Caps dashboard triggers a full page/app reload on every page change. This makes browsing a large video library feel sluggish.

Expected: pagination updates the video list using client-side navigation, keeping the dashboard shell mounted.

Actual: clicking a page number or Next/Previous reloads the whole page.

Reproduction

1. Open a self-hosted Cap Web instance and sign in.
2. Have enough recordings in My Caps to display pagination.
3. Navigate to /dashboard/caps.
4. Click the next page number or Next/Previous.
5. Observe a full page reload rather than an in-app transition.

Additional Context

• Cap version: ghcr.io/capsoftware/cap-web:latest, confirmed against the published image on September 17, 2026.
• Image build date: September 7, 2026.

The current source appears to explain the behavior:

• CapPagination.tsx supplies dashboard page URLs to PaginationLink, PaginationNext, and PaginationPrevious.
• The shared PaginationLink renders an ordinary <a> element rather than using Next.js client-side navigation.

Could dashboard pagination use Next.js Link or equivalent client-side routing so changing pages does not reload the entire app?

[linear]

CAP-813

[Dewin]

Hi maintainers — I have submitted a fix in PR #2307 adding \�sChild\ support to @cap/ui\ Pagination and wrapping dashboard pagination links in Next.js <Link>\ for instant client-side transitions.