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✨ RSS Feed for the blog and "What's New" page

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
content, web-dev

Research direction

Start by locating the blog and “What’s New” page entry points in the repository and reviewing how their articles are represented. Use the RSS Specification linked in the issue, then verify that both feeds are fetchable and expose the full content of their respective items.

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Description

enhancement
Description

RSS is a standard for providing articles and other web content in a machine-readable feed which can be fetched by clients and served to users in their app of choice. Creating RSS feeds for the blog and the "What's New" would allow people to easily keep up-to-date with the CodeEdit blog and CodeEdit updates without having to check the website manually.

Alternatives Considered

Setting up an email list would accomplish the same goal of allowing people to keep up-to-date with blog articles and updates without having to check the website manually, and email is a more widely-used standard than RSS. However, running an email list would be significantly more complex and costly than simply providing an RSS feed, and it would not give users the same amount of choice in how they read blog articles/updates.

Additional Context

The RSS Specification allows either a summary or the full content of each item in the <description> tag. I think CodeEdit should include the full content, because it makes for a more pleasant reading experience, although it does make the feed slightly larger.

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Dominant language
JavaScript
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Forks
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