Code snippets for Laravel RSS feed article - https://simplestweb.in/blog/adding-rss-feed-to-your-blog

console.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;
use App\Models\Post;

Artisan::command('generate:feed', function () {
  $this->info("Generating RSS Feed");

  // It is important that you sort by the latest post
  $posts = Post::where('published', true)->latest()->get();
  
  $site = [
    'name' => 'YOUR SITE NAME', // Simplest Web
    'url' => 'YOUR SITE URL', // Link to your rss.xml. eg. https://simplestweb.in/rss.xml
    'description' => 'YOUR SITE DESCRIPTION',
    'language' => 'YOUR SITE LANGUAGE', // eg. en, en-IN, jp
    'lastBuildDate' => $posts[0]->created_at->format(DateTime::RSS), // This generates the latest posts date in RSS compatible format
  ];

  // Passes posts and site data into the rss.blade.view, out comes text in rss format
  $rssFileContents = view('rss', compact('posts', 'site'));
  // Saves the generated rss feed into a file called rss.xml in the public folder, this works only
  Storage::disk('local')->put('rss.xml', $rssFileContents);

  $this->info("Completed");
});

layout.blade.php

<!-- Change the title and href to your site -->
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Simplest Web" href="https://simplestweb.in/rss.xml" />

rss.blade.php

{!! '<'.'?'.'xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>' !!}
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">
  <channel>
    <title>{{ $site['name'] }}</title>
    <link>{{ $site['url'] }}</link>
    <description><![CDATA[{{ $site['description'] }}]]></description>
    <atom:link href="{{ $site['url'] }}" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
    <language>{{ $site['language'] }}</language>
    <lastBuildDate>{{ $site['lastBuildDate'] }}</lastBuildDate>

    @foreach($posts as $post)
    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[{!! $post->title !!}]]></title>
      <link>{{ route('pages.post', $post->slug) }}</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">{{ route('pages.post', $post->slug) }}</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[{!! $post->description !!}]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[{!! $post->content !!}]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">{{ $post->author }}</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>{{ $post->created_at->format(DateTime::RSS) }}</pubDate>
    </item>
    @endforeach
  </channel>
</rss>