RSS feeds?

[slorber]

Hi

I was wondering if it wouldn't be nice to have RSS feeds to subscribe to newly added libraries on the directory?

Afaik, the items are added at the end of the list so it would probably just mean creating a feed of the last 10-20 directory items.

Of course, having feeds for "popular/trending" libraries can also be useful, but probably harder to achieve.

[Simek]

Hey @slorber,

Thanks for the suggestion! 👍 This might be something that we could explore, and think about adding. I'm not fully sure how many consumers the feed would have, since it will duplicate the current API functionality, but with limited customization capability.

In a meantime, you can use the API to get recently added libraries:

• https://reactnative.directory/api/libraries?order=added

We also support custom limit, so you can pass 10 or 20 by the query params:

• https://reactnative.directory/api/libraries?order=added&limit=10

A bit more complete API endpoint documentation can be found here:

• https://github.com/react-native-community/directory/blob/main/API.md#get-apilibraries

[slorber]

I see thanks! Didn't know about the APIs

Instead of duplicating the logic, why not just reusing the API logic and just changing the shape of what gets returned? Returning RSS XML instead of JSON.

[Simek]

Yeah, we can probably add one or a few predefined endpoints which would return RSS XML instead of JSON, but using API data underneath.

Are there any other feeds you have in mind besides recently added packages? Maybe most downloaded/popular in last week? Or trending ones?

[slorber]

For my newsletter use case, I'm mostly looking for newly added items because I need to check them anyway, but being ably to apply querystring filters could be nice