feat: add rss feed + remove “related “projects for newsletter (#429)

- Remove “related “projects for newsletter: #423
- Add RSS feed: #411

app/[lang]/blog/[slug]/page.tsx

@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ export default function BlogArticle({ params }: any) {
 
   const imageAsCover = true
 
+  const isNewsletter =
+    post?.title?.toLowerCase().includes("newsletter") ||
+    post?.tags?.includes("newsletter") ||
+    post?.tldr?.toLowerCase()?.includes("newsletter")
+
   return (
     <div className="flex flex-col">
       <div className="flex items-start justify-center z-0 relative">
@@ -150,7 +155,11 @@ export default function BlogArticle({ params }: any) {
         </div>
       </div>
       <div className="pt-10 md:pt-16 pb-32">
-        <BlogContent post={post} lang={params.lang} />
+        <BlogContent
+          post={post}
+          lang={params.lang}
+          isNewsletter={isNewsletter}
+        />
       </div>
     </div>
   )

app/api/rss/route.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+import { NextResponse } from "next/server"
+import { generateRssFeed } from "@/lib/rss"
+
+export const dynamic = "force-dynamic"
+export const revalidate = 3600 // Revalidate every hour
+
+export async function GET(request: Request) {
+  try {
+    const { searchParams } = new URL(request.url)
+    const lang = searchParams.get("lang") || "en"
+
+    console.log("Generating RSS feed for language:", lang)
+    const feed = await generateRssFeed(lang)
+    console.log("RSS feed generated successfully")
+
+    return new NextResponse(feed, {
+      headers: {
+        "Content-Type": "application/xml",
+        "Cache-Control": "public, s-maxage=3600, stale-while-revalidate=1800",
+      },
+    })
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.error("Error generating RSS feed:", error)
+    if (error instanceof Error) {
+      console.error("Error details:", {
+        message: error.message,
+        stack: error.stack,
+        name: error.name,
+      })
+    }
+    return new NextResponse(
+      `Error generating RSS feed: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : "Unknown error"}`,
+      { status: 500 }
+    )
+  }
+}

app/layout.tsx

@@ -59,6 +59,16 @@ export const metadata: Metadata = {
       },
     ],
   },
+  alternates: {
+    types: {
+      "application/rss+xml": [
+        {
+          url: "/api/rss",
+          title: "RSS Feed for Privacy & Scaling Explorations",
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+  },
 }
 
 interface RootLayoutProps {

components/blog/blog-content.tsx

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import { ArticleListCard } from "./article-list-card"
 interface BlogContentProps {
   post: Article
   lang: LocaleTypes
+  isNewsletter?: boolean
 }
 
 interface BlogImageProps {
@@ -36,7 +37,11 @@ export function BlogImage({ image, alt, description }: BlogImageProps) {
   )
 }
 
-export function BlogContent({ post, lang }: BlogContentProps) {
+export function BlogContent({
+  post,
+  lang,
+  isNewsletter = false,
+}: BlogContentProps) {
   const articles = getArticles() ?? []
   const articleIndex = articles.findIndex((article) => article.id === post.id)
 
@@ -54,10 +59,12 @@ export function BlogContent({ post, lang }: BlogContentProps) {
           <Markdown>{post?.content ?? ""}</Markdown>
         </div>
 
-        <BlogArticleRelatedProjects
-          projectsIds={post.projects ?? []}
-          lang={lang}
-        />
+        {!isNewsletter && (
+          <BlogArticleRelatedProjects
+            projectsIds={post.projects ?? []}
+            lang={lang}
+          />
+        )}
 
         {moreArticles?.length > 0 && (
           <div className="flex flex-col gap-8">

components/icons.tsx

@@ -235,6 +235,18 @@ export const Icons = {
       />
     </svg>
   ),
+  rss: (props: LucideProps) => (
+    <svg
+      xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
+      width={props.size || 18}
+      height={props.size || 18}
+      viewBox="0 0 24 24"
+      fill="currentColor"
+      {...props}
+    >
+      <path d="M6.18 15.64a2.18 2.18 0 0 1 2.18 2.18C8.36 19 7.38 20 6.18 20C5 20 4 19 4 17.82a2.18 2.18 0 0 1 2.18-2.18M4 4.44A15.56 15.56 0 0 1 19.56 20H16.83A12.73 12.73 0 0 0 4 7.17V4.44m0 5.66a9.9 9.9 0 0 1 9.9 9.9H12.1A7.34 7.34 0 0 0 4 12.1V10.1z" />
+    </svg>
+  ),
   readme: (props: LucideProps) => (
     <svg
       width={props.size}

components/site-footer.tsx

@@ -156,7 +156,6 @@ export function SiteFooter({ lang }: LangProps["params"]) {
                   }
                 />
               </Link>
-
               <Link
                 href={siteConfig.links.youtube}
                 className="flex items-center gap-2"
@@ -172,6 +171,22 @@ export function SiteFooter({ lang }: LangProps["params"]) {
                   }
                 />
               </Link>
+
+              <Link
+                href="/api/rss"
+                className="flex items-center gap-2"
+                target="_blank"
+                rel="noreferrer"
+              >
+                <ItemLabel
+                  label="RSS"
+                  icon={
+                    <div className="w-4">
+                      <Icons.rss className="w-full" />
+                    </div>
+                  }
+                />
+              </Link>
             </LinksWrapper>
             <LinksWrapper>
               <Link

lib/rss.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+import { Feed } from "feed"
+import fs from "fs"
+import path from "path"
+import matter from "gray-matter"
+
+const SITE_URL = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL || "https://pse.dev"
+
+function formatDate(dateString: string | undefined): Date {
+  if (!dateString) {
+    console.warn("No date provided, using current date")
+    return new Date()
+  }
+
+  try {
+    const [year, month, day] = dateString.split("-").map(Number)
+
+    if (!year || !month || !day || isNaN(year) || isNaN(month) || isNaN(day)) {
+      console.warn(`Invalid date format: ${dateString}, using current date`)
+      return new Date()
+    }
+
+    const date = new Date(year, month - 1, day)
+
+    if (isNaN(date.getTime())) {
+      console.warn(`Invalid date: ${dateString}, using current date`)
+      return new Date()
+    }
+
+    return date
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.warn(`Error parsing date: ${dateString}, using current date`)
+    return new Date()
+  }
+}
+
+export async function generateRssFeed(lang: string = "en") {
+  const feed = new Feed({
+    title: "Privacy + Scaling Explorations",
+    description:
+      "PSE is a research and development lab with a mission of making cryptography useful for human collaboration. We build open source tooling with things like zero-knowledge proofs, multiparty computation, homomorphic encryption, Ethereum, and more.",
+    id: SITE_URL,
+    link: SITE_URL,
+    language: lang,
+    image: `${SITE_URL}/favicon.ico`,
+    favicon: `${SITE_URL}/favicon.ico`,
+    copyright: `All rights reserved ${new Date().getFullYear()}, Privacy & Scaling Explorations`,
+    updated: new Date(),
+    feedLinks: {
+      rss2: `${SITE_URL}/api/rss`,
+    },
+    author: {
+      name: "PSE Team",
+      link: SITE_URL,
+    },
+  })
+
+  try {
+    // Get all articles
+    const articlesDirectory = path.join(process.cwd(), "articles")
+    const articleFiles = fs.readdirSync(articlesDirectory)
+
+    const articles = articleFiles
+      .filter((file) => file.endsWith(".md") && file !== "_article-template.md")
+      .map((file) => {
+        try {
+          const filePath = path.join(articlesDirectory, file)
+          const fileContents = fs.readFileSync(filePath, "utf8")
+          const { data, content } = matter(fileContents)
+
+          return {
+            slug: file.replace(/\.md$/, ""),
+            frontmatter: data,
+            content,
+          }
+        } catch (error) {
+          console.warn(`Error processing article ${file}:`, error)
+          return null
+        }
+      })
+      .filter(
+        (article): article is NonNullable<typeof article> => article !== null
+      )
+      .sort(
+        (a, b) =>
+          formatDate(b.frontmatter.date).getTime() -
+          formatDate(a.frontmatter.date).getTime()
+      )
+
+    // Add articles to feed
+    articles.forEach((article) => {
+      try {
+        const url = `${SITE_URL}/articles/${article.slug}`
+        const pubDate = formatDate(article.frontmatter.date)
+
+        feed.addItem({
+          title: article.frontmatter.title || "Untitled Article",
+          id: url,
+          link: url,
+          description: article.frontmatter.tldr || "",
+          content: article.content,
+          author: article.frontmatter.authors?.map((author: string) => ({
+            name: author,
+          })) || [{ name: "PSE Team" }],
+          date: pubDate,
+          image: article.frontmatter.image
+            ? `${SITE_URL}${article.frontmatter.image}`
+            : undefined,
+          category:
+            article.frontmatter.tags?.map((tag: string) => ({ name: tag })) ||
+            [],
+        })
+      } catch (error) {
+        console.warn(`Error adding article ${article.slug} to feed:`, error)
+      }
+    })
+
+    return feed.rss2()
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.error("Error generating RSS feed:", error)
+    throw error
+  }
+}

package.json

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
     "clsx": "^1.2.1",
     "discord.js": "14.4.0",
     "dotenv": "^16.4.4",
+    "feed": "^5.1.0",
     "framer-motion": "^10.12.17",
     "fuse.js": "^6.6.2",
     "gray-matter": "^4.0.3",

yarn.lock

@@ -4173,6 +4173,15 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
+"feed@npm:^5.1.0":
+  version: 5.1.0
+  resolution: "feed@npm:5.1.0"
+  dependencies:
+    xml-js: "npm:^1.6.11"
+  checksum: 10/c0b7cd6e6a5d5406f871cdaf4487d273c00e35f3c04975bb9095e10cc5234ec1b797d11a37f6502476d212e1ba0854f3de7302c4750bdeb7aec3aedcd4e50426
+  languageName: node
+  linkType: hard
+
 "file-entry-cache@npm:^8.0.0":
   version: 8.0.0
   resolution: "file-entry-cache@npm:8.0.0"
@@ -6857,6 +6866,7 @@ __metadata:
     eslint-config-prettier: "npm:^8.8.0"
     eslint-plugin-react: "npm:^7.37.4"
     eslint-plugin-tailwindcss: "npm:^3.18.0"
+    feed: "npm:^5.1.0"
     framer-motion: "npm:^10.12.17"
     fuse.js: "npm:^6.6.2"
     globals: "npm:^15.14.0"
@@ -8079,6 +8089,13 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
+"sax@npm:^1.2.4":
+  version: 1.4.1
+  resolution: "sax@npm:1.4.1"
+  checksum: 10/b1c784b545019187b53a0c28edb4f6314951c971e2963a69739c6ce222bfbc767e54d320e689352daba79b7d5e06d22b5d7113b99336219d6e93718e2f99d335
+  languageName: node
+  linkType: hard
+
 "scheduler@npm:^0.23.2":
   version: 0.23.2
   resolution: "scheduler@npm:0.23.2"
@@ -9713,6 +9730,17 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
+"xml-js@npm:^1.6.11":
+  version: 1.6.11
+  resolution: "xml-js@npm:1.6.11"
+  dependencies:
+    sax: "npm:^1.2.4"
+  bin:
+    xml-js: ./bin/cli.js
+  checksum: 10/55ce342a47bf14a138a3fcea0c9e325b81484cfc1a8aac78df13b4d6ca01f20e32820572bc3e927cd9b61b9da9cdee4657cb2f304e460343d8d85d6a3659d749
+  languageName: node
+  linkType: hard
+
 "yallist@npm:^3.0.2":
   version: 3.1.1
   resolution: "yallist@npm:3.1.1"