What is the best way to generate an atom or rss feed in node.js application

Question

I'm trying to add newsfeeds to an node.js application using express.js and I can't find a painless way to take a json model and turn it into an atom or rss feed. Best solutions i've come up with is use an Xml library (also not so hot on node.js) or EJS template and build it up by hand.

There seems to be plenty of code for parsing rss/atom into json, but not for going the other direction. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

Searching the NPM registery for RSS

gives rss

See their github page for more details.

As general advice, do search the npm registry for relevant keywords. It'll make your life easier.

Answer 2

You can use Feed for Node.js. It is a very simple wrapper that I created a couple of weeks ago to generate some Atom and RSS feed in no time.

Simply install it using NPM:

$ npm install feed

Then, follow the documentation available there http://projets.jpmonette.net/en/feed !