RSS Feed Getter

An experimental project that will display RSS Feed data in a dynamic web page.

Overview

This is a simple experimental Web App to get the RSS feed from a website and display it in a simple HTML page.

Status

Features

• Built using ASP.NET Blazor 8.0 following best practices whenever possible.
• Blazor Interactive Razor Pages.
• Use configuration file to set RSS feed source targets.
• Fetches, processes, and neatly displays RSS feed data.
• Enable processing some native HTML content from the feed.
• Caches RSS feed data for an hour.
• Bundle-ready using LigerShark's WebOptimizer package.
• Dynamically add RSS Feed URLs in Blazor page, backed by EntityFrameworkCore SQLite.
• Display publish date of each RSS feed item.

Requirements

• DotNET 8.0 Runtime.
• An internet connection.
• You must know the RSS Feed website url (there is no auto discovery) to add it in the Configure web page.

Note: This project uses .NET Aspire 9 for development and testing. See also Aspireify.net and .Net Aspire Blog Articles.

Future

As time permits new features may be added. Some top-of-mind ideas:

• Update style.
• Implement themes.
• Ensure accessibility.
• Ensure responsive design for many form factors, devices.
• Better processing of feed data to ensure HTML and other content is displayed correctly but executable code is processed.
• Explore efficient use of Components and Render Fragments.
• Paginate results.
• Use SQL Server or PostgreSQL to better support deployment to cloud (will also separate Data from the Blazor Server App).
• Make the cache timeout configurable (examples: appsettings, environment variable, or simply adding a push-button to clear current cache).
• Open RSS Link targets in a new tab (or Window).

References and Kudos

• Aspireify.net
• LigerShark WebOptimizer
• ASP.NET Core Blazor in .NET 8.0