Get an RSS Feed

Use jQuery to get an RSS feed and then build an array of blog data

Overview

In this screencast we'll replace the hard-coded array of blog post data with one we build from an RSS feed. We learn:

  1. How to use $.get() to get data from a URL
  2. How to use jQuery's built-in XML parsing to get the data from the feed
  3. How to build an array with jQuery's map function
  4. How to asynchronously update a jQuery Mobile page with a Handlebars template
  5. How to use the HTTP Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to allow a cross-site GET

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