Laravel 5.5 API pagination

Hello,

I would like to know if there is a simply way to generate a Json Pagination when building an API using Laravel 5.5.

I was trying to create a pagination using a framework called Framework 7 but it is so difficult(and I am running out of time),that I was hoping for another solution, having the pagination done via Json instead so I can simply pull these 3 below urls in my buttons without much logic:

  "links": {
    "self": "http://example.com/articles",
    "next": "http://example.com/articles?page[offset]=2",
    "last": "http://example.com/articles?page[offset]=10"
  },

After researching a little bit on the internet I found this: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-json-api-paginate

But this confused me, I am using the query builder(not Eloquent), and I thought that this: https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/pagination#paginating-query-builder-results

would produce the correct pagination.

Could anyone please tell me if I really need the Spatie plugin or if there is a way to generate the json api and paginate it with the original plugin in Laravel 5.5 with perhaps something like:

return response()
            ->json($obj)
            ->paginate(15);

Thank you,