veselosky/feed-reader-demo

Browser-based feed reader: a React.js demo project

DO NOT USE

This is just a demo application for me to play with React and Node. Move along. These aren't the droids you're looking for.

The demo is live at readme.mindvessel.net.

RSS Reader App

The goal here is to implement an RSS reader that runs in the browser, replacing heavyweight server-side feed aggregators. This is, of course, impossible due to browser security constraints and the fact that NOBODY puts CORS headers on their RSS feeds even though that would be perfectly rational.

For this demo, I'm just converting feeds to JSON and saving them locally. If we wanted to go to production with this thing, here are some possible solutions:

• CORS-Anywhere is an open-source CORS proxy for Node.js. You could run one of these on a tiny server and whitelist all the domains where you serve websites. You still have to run infrastructure, but not much.
• Lambda/API Gateway: Write a tiny Lambda function that grabs subscribed feeds and writes them to the S3 bucket that serves the app. It could read the list of subscribed feeds from the bucket. But managing the list would be a pain. (Tool to manage the list sold separately?)

Misc

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

For information on how to perform common tasks go here.