Feed module - Everyone deserves RSS, Atom and Json

📖 Release Notes

Features

• Three different feed types (RSS 2.0, ATOM 1.0 and JSON 1.0)
• As many feeds as you like!
• Completely customizable. Need to fetch data before? No problem!
• Works with all modes (yes, even generate!)

Setup

• Add @nuxtjs/feed dependency using yarn or npm to your project
• Add @nuxtjs/feed to modules section of nuxt.config.js

{
  modules: [
    // Simple usage
    '@nuxtjs/feed',
 ],
 feed: [
   // Your feeds here
 ]
}

• Configure it as you need

Configuration

So.. how to get these feeds working now?

Configuration object overview

{
 //...
 feed: [
   // A default feed configuration object
   {
     path: '/feed.xml', // The route to your feed.
     async create (feed) {}, // The create function (see below)
     cacheTime: 1000 * 60 * 15, // How long should the feed be cached
     type: 'rss2' // Can be: rss2, atom1, json1
   }
 ],
 //...
}

Feed create function

Let's take a closer look on the create function. This is the API that actually modifies your upcoming feed.

A simple create function could look like this:

create = async feed => {
  feed.options = {
    title: 'My blog',
    description: 'This is my personal feed!',
  }
  
  const posts = await axios.get('https://blog.lichter.io/posts/').data
  posts.forEach(post => { 
    feed.addItem({
        title: post.title,
        id: post.url,
        link: post.url,
        description: post.description,
        content: post.content
  })
  
  feed.addCategory('Nuxt.js')
  
  feed.addContributor({
    name: 'Alexander Lichter',
    email: 'example@lichter.io',
    link: 'https://lichter.io/'
  })
}

Feed creation is based on the feed package. Please use it as reference and further documentation for modifying the feed object that is passed to the create function.

Using the create function gives you almost unlimited possibilities to customize your feed!

Using a feed factory function

There is one more thing. Imagine you want to add a feed per blog category, but you don't want to add every category by hand.

You can use a factory function to solve that problem. Instead of a hardcoded array, you can setup a function that will be called up on feed generation. The function must return an array with all feeds you want to generate.

{
 feed: async () => {
     const posts = (await axios.get('https://my-url.com/posts')).data
     const tags = (await axios.get('https://my-url.com/tags')).data
     
     return tags.map(t => {
       const relevantPosts = posts.filter(/*filter posts somehow*/)
 
       return {
         path: `/${t.slug}.xml`, // The route to your feed.
         async create (feed) {
           feed.options = {
             title: `${t.name} - My blog`,
             description: `All posts related to ${t.name} of my blog`,
           }
 
           relevantPosts.forEach(post => {
             feed.addItem({
               title: post.title,
               id: post.id,
               link: `https://blog.lichter.io/posts/${post.slug}`,
               description: post.excerpt,
               content: post.text
             })
           })
         },
         cacheTime: 1000 * 60 * 15,
         type: 'rss2'
       }
     })
   },
}

Development

• Clone this repository
• Install dependencies using yarn install or npm install
• Start development server using npm run dev

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) Alexander Lichter