Support RSS

[jakelazaroff]

Right now, Radish does a couple things that make the HTML authoring experience nicer:

• HTML files are automatically nested in folders for nicer routing. For example, if a page is src/about.jsx, Radish will place the built file at about/index.html so that the path in the browser is /about/.
• Radish generates an HTML "shell" — the doctype, html, head and body tags.

These are both convenient for normal pages, but unnecessary for RSS, which is accessed by visiting the file directly (/blog/feed.xml) and doesn't need any sort of "shell" around it.

A solution to the first might be allowing the paths function to return file names as well. If the last segment of a path has an extension, Radish would create a file with that name and extension, rather than creating a folder and placing an index.html inside it.

I'm not sure how to solve the second right now — maybe another export from pages (export const shell = false;) that instructs Radish not to generate the surrounding markup?

[20kdc]

It seems like there is some (?) logic around pathnames for this in bundle.ts:writePage, but not when paths are specified, and I'm not sure what the situation is with it all & what is/isn't a bug. I don't really want to break anything if this is relied upon somehow...

It also seems like shell became layout.

Unfortunately I'm not sure how to output the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> header, or I'd document this. There is also the (minor) risk of HTML quirks versus XML, like how some tags in HTML are unclosed.