Adding RSS Feed

RSS feeds are a way to share information with users about each piece of content available on a website. Subscribing to RSS feeds allows users to keep up with newly published content, never missing out on new updates. RSS feeds usually include a title, a summary, a publication date, and a link to the content. Other information can also be included, such as the name of the author or a category tag. In this lesson, we’ll take a quick look at how we can add an RSS feed to our Astro project, using Astro’s built-in RSS feed generation tool.

Adding RSS feed

To add an RSS feed to Astro, we need to create a new route in our pages folder with the xml.js extension. In the following code widget, we have a file inside the pages folder called rss.xml.js, which is currently empty: