I am working on a blogging application in Laravel 8.

Un the ArticlesController controller I have:

class ArticlesController extends FrontendController {

   public function index() {
		// All articles
		$articles = Article::paginate(12);
		return view('themes/' . $this->theme_directory . '/templates/index', 
			[
				'theme_directory' => $this->theme_directory,
				'articles' => $articles
			]
		);
	}
}

The goal

The goal is for the posts to have a pager, with links only to the next and previous articles, not a pagination.

<!-- Pager -->
@if($articles->hasPages())
	<div class="clearfix">
		<ul class="pagination">
			<li class="prev">
				<a class="btn btn-primary" href="#">Older Posts &rarr;</a>
			</li>
			<li class="next">
				<a class="btn btn-primary" href="#">&larr; Newer Posts</a>
			</li>
		</ul>
	</div>
@endif

The problem

The default pagination code, of course, does not work for this:

@if($articles->hasPages())
	{!! $articles->withQueryString()->links() !!}
@endif

What is a viable solution for implementing a pager?