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What is conduit

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What conduit is

Conduit is a Vue 3 application that follows the RealWorld specification and provides a place to share knowledge. Its Home screen is the starting point for browsing article feeds and popular tags.

If you need to…Go to
Understand the wider capabilitiesWhat can you do with conduit
Check setup and backend requirementsSystem requirements
Browse articles from HomeDiscover articles
Open and read an articleRead an article
Choose a feedChoose a feed
Understand what appears in the feedUnderstand the Home results

Before you choose a feed

The Home screen changes its choices according to whether you are signed in. The personal feed is available when you are authenticated; the public banner appears when you are not.

Prerequisites

  • To use Your Feed, sign in first.
  • To browse the public feed, open Home without signing in.

Choose a feed

Home offers Global Feed, Your Feed, and a tag feed.

Prerequisites

  • To choose Your Feed, you are signed in.
  • To choose a tag feed, you have a tag value available from Home.

Steps

  1. Select one feed from the table.

    If you want to…Select
    Browse all articlesGlobal Feed
    Browse articles from accounts you followYour Feed
    Browse articles associated with a tagthe tag value in the tag feed tab

Result: Home displays the selected feed.

When the following feed has no articles, Home displays the message Your feed is empty. Go to the Global Feed to discover articles. Select Go to the Global Feed to return to the public feed.

Understand the Home results

Use the selected feed to inspect article previews and popular tags. An article preview links through its title, description, or Read more... text, while each popular tag value opens its tag feed.

Prerequisites

  • You can access Home and have selected a feed.

Steps

  1. Open an article by selecting one of its links in the table.

    If you want to…Select
    Open it from its heading or summarythe article title or description
    Open it from the direct linkRead more...
  2. Select a popular tag value to open that tag's feed.

  3. Read Loading articles... while articles are loading.

  4. If the loaded feed has no articles, read No articles are here... yet..

  5. If the feed has more than one page, select the number for the page you want.

Result: Home shows the selected feed page, an article preview, or the applicable loading or empty-feed message.

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