Just some quick notes on creating a Google Cloud Function that serves a REST API to get your Medium posts

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Maybe someday Medium will provide an API to show your posts on your website. Until then you need to create your own.

Using Google Cloud functions I do not need to worry about the hosting. If you want to get started with Google Cloud Functions, the Google documentation is pretty sweet; just head over here.

I have enabled Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS).

I am using XMLHttpRequest and fast-xml-parser to do the heavy lifting.

Here is my code:

Thank you for reading! Take care and hope to see you soon. 🙏🏽