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 |
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| Understand the wider capabilities | What can you do with conduit |
| Check setup and backend requirements | System requirements |
| Browse articles from Home | Discover articles |
| Open and read an article | Read an article |
| Choose a feed | Choose a feed |
| Understand what appears in the feed | Understand 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
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Select one feed from the table.
If you want to… Select Browse all articles Global Feed Browse articles from accounts you follow Your Feed Browse articles associated with a tag the 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
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Open an article by selecting one of its links in the table.
If you want to… Select Open it from its heading or summary the article title or description Open it from the direct link Read more... -
Select a popular tag value to open that tag's feed.
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Read
Loading articles...while articles are loading. -
If the loaded feed has no articles, read
No articles are here... yet.. -
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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