From cbef290b5bcbbb15db20f3943f56bf4293e42e49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Carstairs <65492573+Sycamost@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 10:00:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Better RSS: post content, better positioning, TypeScript

---
 website/src/pages/blog/rss.xml.ts | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 website/src/pages/rss.xml.js      | 17 ----------------
 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 website/src/pages/blog/rss.xml.ts
 delete mode 100644 website/src/pages/rss.xml.js

diff --git a/website/src/pages/blog/rss.xml.ts b/website/src/pages/blog/rss.xml.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c9ef251
--- /dev/null
+++ b/website/src/pages/blog/rss.xml.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+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`, */
+		})),
+	})
+}
diff --git a/website/src/pages/rss.xml.js b/website/src/pages/rss.xml.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 79da596..0000000
--- a/website/src/pages/rss.xml.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-import rss from '@astrojs/rss';
-import { getCollection } from 'astro:content';
-import { SITE_TITLE, SITE_DESCRIPTION } from '../consts';
-
-export async function GET(context) {
-	const posts = await getCollection('blog');
-	return rss({
-		title: SITE_TITLE,
-		description: SITE_DESCRIPTION,
-		site: context.site,
-		items: posts.map((post) => ({
-			...post.data,
-			link: `/blog/${post.slug}/`,
-			pubDate: new Date(post.data.pubDate.year, post.data.pubDate.month - 1, post.data.pubDate.day),
-		})),
-	});
-}