A Not-So-Simple RSS App in TypeScript

Ok, I lie, this demo is also pretty simple, but I wanted to break the pattern of the last few posts and at least pretend this example is a bit more complex. As I try to find excuses to write more TypeScript, I thought a great example of that would be a simple RSS aggregator. You hit the site, tell it the feeds you care about, and it renders a date sorted list of entries. Because RSS typically can't be parsed in client-side JavaScript (don't know why? ask me below!) so I'd have to make use of a serverless function to proxy the calls (and at the same time, handle turning the XML into JSON). Now, to be fair, I had built nearly the same thing back in February: Building an RSS Aggregator with Astro . This let me crib a bit of the work already done. For this one, my stack was: Vite for the build process Alpine on the front end TypeScript, as much as possible Hosting on Netlify to make the serverless function easier to do WebAwesome, which I've used in the previous ones, for the UI You can…