Trending pages are a product, not a spreadsheet

Readers trust "Best of JavaScript this week." Medium already ranks stories—you expose that ranking through **topfeeds**, **latestposts**, and **tag info** in JSON your front end owns.

1 min read No scrapers required Updated Jul 10, 2026

UX patterns

Tabs: Hot / New / Top month / All-time via {mode}
Topic landing: hero stats from tag info + feed below
Related topics sidebar from related_tags

Performance

Cache feeds 5–15 minutes. Trending does not need second-level freshness. Pre-render popular tags at build time for static sites.

Endpoints

/tag/{tag}
/latestposts/{topic_slug}
/topfeeds/{tag}/{mode}
/related_tags/{tag}