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Building a RSS Viewer With Vue: Part 2

# June 19, 2018 By Raymond Camden

Welcome to Part 2 of this mini-series on building a RSS viewer with Vue. In the last post, I walked through how I built my demo using Vue.js and Vuetify on the front end and Webtask on the back end. When I built that initial version, I knew it was exactly thatmdash;an "initial" version. I took some time to work on a few updates, and while I won't dare call this a "perfect" version, I do think I've made some improvements and I'd like to share them with you.

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Building a RSS Viewer With Vue: Part 1

# June 18, 2018 By Raymond Camden

As I explore, learn, and most importantly, play with Vue.js, I've been building different types of apps as a way to get practice with and improve my use of it. A few weeks ago, I was reading about the shut down of Digg's RSS Reader and while great alternatives exist, I thought it would be fun to build my own with Vue. In this article, I'm going to explain how I put it together and also what's wrong with it. I knew getting into this that I was going to make some compromises, so the plan is to follow up this version with a nicer one in a follow-up post.

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It’s Time for an RSS Revival

# April 12, 2018 By Chris Coyier

Brian Barrett:

Tired of Twitter? Facebook fatigued? It's time to head back to RSS.

I'm an RSS reader lover, so I hate to admit it, but RSS ain't going mainstream. It was too nerdy 20 years ago and it's too nerdy now. RSS is still incredibly useful technology, but I can't see it taking off alone.

For RSS to take off, it needs some kind of abstraction. Like Flipboard, where you can get started reading stuff right away and feeding it RSS isn't something you need to handle manually. Apple News is kinda like that. I'm a little love/hate with Apple News though. I like reading stuff in it, but I've stopped publishing in it because it became too much work to get right and have it look good. It's like managing a second site, unlike RSS which just brainlessly works when your CMS supports it. A little-known feature of Apple News was that it used to be able to function as an RSS reader, but they removed that a couple of years ago. Boooooo.

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Announcing JSON Feed

# May 19, 2017 By Robin Rendle

Manton Reece and Brent Simmons have just published their thoughts on JSON Feed which is a new standard for making a feed, like a collection of blog posts. The format itself is similar to RSS and Atom but since it's in JSON it's easier to read and a lot more familiar to developers:

For most developers, JSON is far easier to read and write than XML. Developers may groan at picking up an XML parser, but decoding JSON is often just a single line of code.

Our hope is that, because of the lightness of JSON and simplicity of the JSON Feed format, developers will be more attracted to developing for the open web.

My favorite part about this project? The spec is just so gosh darn easy to read.

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Let’s Say FeedBurner Shuts Down…

# March 26, 2013 By Chris Coyier

A lot of us around here have blogs and a lot of us use FeedBurner to "host" our RSS feeds. I thought it was worth talking about what might happen if we lose FeedBurner, which seems especially likely these days with the impending doom of Google Reader.

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Quick Thoughts on RSS Advertising Effectiveness

# July 6, 2011 By Chris Coyier

I've recently been trying RSS advertising here on CSS-Tricks through BuySellAds. Three or four advertisers have tried it and none have stuck around. Not a total loss from my perspective, but certainly not great. (more…)

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