RSS Feeds in 2025: Still Relevant and How to Implement Them

RSS Is Not Dead

RSS powers more of the internet than most people realize: podcast distribution (every podcast is an RSS feed), news aggregators (Feedly, Inoreader), email newsletters (many tools pull from RSS), and content syndication. If you have a blog, you should have an RSS feed.

Implementation

// app/feed.xml/route.ts (Next.js)\nexport async function GET() {\n  const posts = await getPosts({ limit: 50 });\n  const xml = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n  <rss version="2.0">\n    <channel>\n      <title>Your Blog</title>\n      <link>https://yoursite.com/blog</link>\n      ${posts.map(p => `\n        <item>\n          <title>${p.title}</title>\n          <link>https://yoursite.com/blog/${p.slug}</link>\n          <description>${p.excerpt}</description>\n          <pubDate>${new Date(p.publishedAt).toUTCString()}</pubDate>\n        </item>`).join(')}\n    </channel>\n  </rss>`;\n  return new Response(xml, { headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/xml' } });\n}

Auto-Discovery

Add this to your HTML head so feed readers can find your RSS automatically:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Blog" href="/feed.xml" />