From Static Site with RSS feed (astro) to fedi?

[reggi]

I have a project with Github, Blog, RSS, released as a static site. What I'm interested in is creating a simple single-page fedi app like in the deno deploy demo, but that fetches the rss once a day using deno cron (or has a authed /fetch-update endpoint my SSG github action can trigger) and provides an activity pub feed from a static blog.

I know that Astro (the framework i'm using for SSG) has SSG and a new database implementation, I'm not as interested in using SSR for my blog and I'm ok with splitting the sites into two apps astoria.app (on gh pages) and fedi.astoria.app (deno deploy). However, I can imagine an implementation using Astro's new DB (similar to the deno one0 would provide a lot of value for the astro community as well.

I'll dig through the source to see if this is possible, but just curious if anyone else has had this idea, if it exists already, or if there's something preventing me from doing this.

[dahlia]

The idea you're describing sounds like it could be easily implemented with Fedify. You could integrate Fedify with a micro-framework like Hono to implement a /fetch-update endpoint, or as you said, you could use Deno Cron to implement it. When the event is triggered, you could convert the update to a Note or Article object, wrap it in a Create activity, and send it to the followers using Context.sendActivity() method.

However, there are of course easier ways to do this using tools that already exist, such as Hatsu.

Additionally, you might find the following series of articles by Maho Pacheco helpful: A guide to implement ActivityPub in a static site (or any website).

[reggi]

I implmented this here https://github.com/reggi/rss-fedi/blob/main/fedi.ts#L36-L59 but nothing showing on the account https://indieweb.social/@[email protected], any thoughts? I also didn't see any logging within fedify, might be useful to know what's going on.

[dahlia]

Could you show me the content of the Create instance?

[reggi]

@dahlia
this line calls federation.createContext https://github.com/reggi/rss-fedi/blob/main/fedi.ts#L44C1-L44C56
this line calls new Federation https://github.com/reggi/rss-fedi/blob/main/fedi.ts#L68

Is this what you're referring to?

[dahlia]

If you could log the Create instance here, it would be easier for me to help you debug.

[reggi]

I just cloned the blog and got it running on its own and I can see posts 😻 🥳

https://indieweb.social/@[email protected]
https://thomasreggi-fedi-blog-87.deno.dev/posts
https://github.com/reggi/fedi-blog

I'm just going to slowly remove fresh and try and make a single jsr package that does this:

Deno.serve(rssFedi({
   rssFeed: "https://astoria.app"
}))

[reesericci]

Just thinking out loud here - would it be possible for a direct integration with Astro through the use of JS routes, like serverless functions w/the Netlify or Vercel adapters?

[dahlia]

We don't officially support Astro integration yet, but it should be possible since Astro has middleware. See the integration manual for more information.

[dahlia]

In the next release, v0.12.0, Fedify will have Astro integration!