RSS isn't dead. Developers still use feed readers, and having a proper /rss.xml or /blog/rss URL is a small but meaningful signal that your site is a real publication. My portfolio runs on a split stack — a React SPA on Vercel and a Django REST API on a separate domain — so adding RSS turned out to be more interesting than I expected. Here's exactly what I built, the bugs I hit along the way, and the final result.
The Setup
Frontend: React + Vite, deployed on Vercel at vicentereyes.org
Backend: Django (cookiecutter-django), deployed at backend.vicentereyes.org
Goal: RSS feed available at two URLs:
