feed VS astro-imagetools

For the RSS feed, we'll be using the Feed package to handle the data formatting. You can install it with:

At least for now, Astro clearly falls short in this category. Its built-in ability to provide RSS feeds is rather limited, and it doesn’t yet enable JSON feeds at all.5 In the meantime, some users, including Yours Truly, have gotten around this by using the third-party feed package, which supports RSS and JSON feeds.6

First, I installed the feed package.

To create our RSS feed, we will use the NPM package Feed, which make it easy to generate syndicated feed using Typescript.

This module is based on feed package. You can check it out for modifying the feed object passed to the create method.

I found that my SSR pages loaded very slowly because I was using astro-imagetools to process images. Since optimized images aren't necessary during editing anyways, I created a wrapper component to bypass image processing in the preview environment:

In our case, using Astro, we simply used astro-imagetools to compress images automatically while importing them. We might improve this later, for example generating multiple image sizes and formats, reducing the load even further for modern browsers. Currently, it checks our box though.

There is no official Astro solution for working with images, but Astro ImageTools gives Astro the ability to provide optimized, responsive images.4