How to display the elements of a repeater gradually?

I have a filter or query that is displayed in a repeater, but I don’t want all the results to be displayed at the same time, I want a button to be pressed to gradually display the repeating items, how can I do that?
… Investigating a little, I understood that with the graphical interface of the editor the functionality that I want can be achieved, however it does it with all the elements of the database … what I want is that it is only the data of the filter or query that I currently have in the repeater.

I think I need a function in the button that allows me to gradually show the repeater elements, but I don’t understand how the repeater works, that is, how it displays its elements on the screen.
Can anybody help me? Please!

Is this what you are trying to achieve →
https://www.wix.com/corvid/reference/wix-dataset/introduction#wix-dataset_introduction_dataset-pages
https://www.wix.com/corvid/reference/wix-dataset/dataset/loadmore

Thanks but I still can’t get it, in the dataset there are 50 elements which are shown in the repeater, however I apply several search filters on them to obtain a reduced data set, let’s suppose 9 elements in the repeater, now I want to that those 9 elements can be shown gradually…the functions you mentioned do it but not to the 9 elements if not to all the 50 elements of the dataset, how could I gradually show those 9 elements that I mentioned?

@kikevelasquez22 I think this is one of the method →
(not tested)

#repeater1 - repeater
#button1 button1
#container1 - container in the repeater

let num = 0;
$w("#repeater").onItemReady( ($item, itemData, index) => {
if(index === num) {
$item('#container1').expand();
}
else {
$item('#container1').collapse();
 }

});

$w('#button1').onClick((event) => {
 num = Number(num) + 1;
 }); 

Thanks, the code didn’t work, but it gave me a similar idea of ​​how the problem could be fixed, and well, all I did was get the query array, i.e. all 9 elements and with the slice function ( start, end), adding 2 to the end of the function each time a button is pressed
Something like this:

 var num = 2;
 $w('#repeater1').data = await consulta
        .find()
        .then((res) => {

            $w('#button1').onClick((event) => {
                num = Number(num) + 2;
            });
 return res.items.slice(0, num);
            
        });

@kikevelasquez22 The code I gave also worked fine for me !!!