Better RSS: post content, better positioning, TypeScript

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+import rss from '@astrojs/rss';
+import type { APIContext } from 'astro';
+import { getCollection } from 'astro:content';
+import MarkdownIt from 'markdown-it';
+
+const mdParser = new MarkdownIt();
+
+export async function GET(context: APIContext) {
+	// `site` is guaranteed to exist because we define it in our Astro config
+	const site = context.site!;
+	const posts = await getCollection('blog');
+
+	return rss({
+		title: 'Joe Carstairs’ blog',
+		description: 'Short posts on random topics I find interesting',
+		customData: `
+			<image>/images/headshot.jpg</image>
+		  <language>en-GB</language>
+		`,
+		site,
+		trailingSlash: false,
+		items: posts.map((post) => ({
+		  link: post.slug,
+			title: post.data.title,
+	    content: mdParser.render(post.body),
+	    pubDate: new Date(`${post.data.pubDate.year}-${post.data.pubDate.month}-${post.data.pubDate.day}`),
+	    description: post.data.description,
+	    author: 'Joe Carstairs',
+
+			// A page for displaying comments related to the item
+	    /* commentsUrl: `${post.slug}/comments`, */
+		})),
+	})
+}