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       Reading, a minimal Node.js RSS/ATOM Feed Reader
       
       1 December, 2015
       
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       This post was translated from HTML, inevitably some things will have changed or no longer apply - July 2025
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       I wrote a minimal Node RSS/Atom feed reader, based on code & a blog post by Dr Drang.
       
 (HTM) Dr Drang
       It's up on GitHub and npm, and once you have Node installed you install Reading in the usual way:
       
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       npm install -g reading
       
       
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       Maybe it's just the way I write JavaScript, but the amount of boilerplate and ceremony involved is always somewhat mind-boggling to me. From what I can see ES6 may address at least some of my issues, but it's a creaky old language and it does things in creaky old ways sometimes. Fun though. Writing that was a bit of recreational coding.
       
       Not a bad evening-length start to a project, and not at all a bad way to celebrate the second anniversary of this blog, which I re-launched in November 2013. The blog itself is still running on Node after I rewrote it back in January. I must get around to cleaning that code up & putting it up online too. One day soon.
       
       In the meantime, happy reading!
       
       Updated 17 November 2024 -- Links to long deleted pages removed.