ASP.NET Core MVC app without EF

If you are looking for paging on the front end/client side then you can easily do using the Jquery data table. Below is a link for your reference.

 https://datatables.net/examples/basic_init/alt_pagination.html

https://datatables.net/reference/option/paging#Example 

You can achive this with datatable.js. Check the following link:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/asp-net-mvc-jquery-server-side-datatable-example/