rss 2 alternatives, TODO: CHOOSE

src/routes/blog/rss.xml/+server.ts

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+import { listBlogPosts } from '$lib/contents/blog';
+import RSS from 'rss';
+
+export const GET = async () => {
+	const posts = listBlogPosts();
+
+	/*
+    The RSS feed is a JavaScript object that contains information about the blog feed.
+    It has a title, description, copyright, and other properties.
+    It also has an array of categories that can be used to filter the blog feed.
+    The pubDate property indicates when the feed was last updated.
+    */
+
+	const feed = new RSS({
+		title: "Matt's C4vern",
+		description: "Matt's personal blog about ventures in tech.",
+		copyright: `Copyright © ${new Date().getFullYear()} Matt Morin. All rights reserved`,
+		ttl: 1800,
+		feed_url: 'https://www.mattmor.in/blog',
+		site_url: 'https://www.mattmor.in',
+		image_url: 'https://www.mattmor.in/favicon192.png',
+		language: 'en',
+		categories: ["Matt's C4vern updates", 'Tech', 'Disruption', 'DevOps', 'Ventures'],
+		pubDate: new Date().toUTCString(),
+		generator: 'Matt Morin'
+	});
+
+	// This code creates an RSS feed. It does so by iterating over all posts and
+	// adding each post to the feed.
+
+	posts.forEach((post: any) => {
+		feed.item({
+			title: post.title,
+			description: post.excerpt,
+			url: `https://www.mattmor.in/blog/${post.slug}`,
+			guid: `https://www.mattmor.in/blog/${post.slug}`,
+			categories: post.tags,
+			date: post.date,
+			enclosure: {
+				url: `https://www.mattmor.in/images/blog/${post.slug}/${post.image}`,
+				type: 'image/webp'
+			},
+			author: post.author
+		});
+	});
+
+	return new Response(feed.xml(), {
+		headers: {
+			'Cache-Control': 'max-age=0, s-max-age=3600',
+			'Content-Type': 'application/xml'
+		}
+	});
+};

src/routes/blog/rss.xml/alternative.ts

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+import * as config from '$lib/config';
+import type { BlogPost } from '$lib/types';
+
+export const prerender = true;
+
+export async function GET({ fetch }) {
+	const response = await fetch('api/posts');
+	const posts: BlogPost[] = await response.json();
+
+	const headers = { 'Content-Type': 'application/xml' };
+
+	const xml = `
+		<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0">
+			<channel>
+				<title>${config.title}</title>
+				<description>${config.description}</description>
+				<link>${config.url}</link>
+				<atom:link href="${config.url}/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>
+				${posts
+					.map(
+						(post) => `
+						<item>
+							<title>${post.title}</title>
+							<description>${post.description}</description>
+							<link>${config.url}/${post.slug}</link>
+							<guid isPermaLink="true">${config.url}/${post.slug}</guid>
+							<pubDate>${new Date(post.date).toUTCString()}</pubDate>
+						</item>
+					`
+					)
+					.join('')}
+			</channel>
+		</rss>
+	`.trim();
+
+	return new Response(xml, { headers });
+}