Improve index.html welcome page

[gsmet]

We include in Quarkus a welcome page when creating a new project.

The current file is here: https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/blob/master/devtools/maven/src/test/resources/projects/classic/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/index.html .

It could use some love once we have a logo. @jkbrock could your team take care of it once everything is settled? It's the first thing people will see when creating a new app so I think it deserves to be nice.

[jkbrock]

@gsmet we'll definitely help. But I have a couple of questions:

• Is this a patternfly layout?
• Here's a screenshot rendered from that code, is this what you're displaying now?

[gsmet]

I don't think it's a patternfly layout, it's styled very basically (we need all the styles to be embedded so that the user only has to delete one file to get rid of it).

And yes, this is how it looks right now. Thus my request :).

[cescoffier]

I can't remember how I did it, but I don't believe it uses Patternfly, more some kind on "embedded" CSS. Note that quckstart pages (chat, validation...) uses Patternfly. I'm not against using Patternfly (I love it), but it needs to be embedded in the page as the user may not have internet access (and adding a resource might be a bit too much).

[jkbrock]

Sounds good, I'll take a look and start on some mockups next week.

[gsmet]

@jkbrock any chance we could try to tackle this soon?

[emmanuelbernard]

now moved to @insectengine

[brunolmfg]

Maybe a configuration property could be provided to indicate the welcome or index page. This is only possible with undertow extension using the welcome-files entry on web.xml. The vertx-http extension could provide an option like this:

quarkus.http.index-page=/default.html

Open a specific issue for this configuration?

UPDATE: Although it seems unrelated, with #30068 merged, now it is possible to configure the index page.

[insectengine]

@brunolmfg , @gsmet - sorry, this request was before my time. Does this page still need it's visual design addressed?

[cescoffier]

@insectengine yes, definitely. I did the current one at the very beginning of Quarkus. It can be improved a lot.

[geoand]

Are we still planning on addressing this one?

[insectengine]

Didn't we already address this?

[geoand]

I'll have to check

[geoand]

Is this the updated page?

Looks pretty similar to what was reported in this issue. Am I missing something?

[cescoffier]

No, it had not been addressed...

We had a few ideas with @phillip-kruger, especially when running in dev mode (where we could imagine a dynamic page)

[phillip-kruger]

Yes, see "Replace the static page on root (/) with a dynamic page created by Dev UI" here: #35178

I do not think this page should be in non-dev mode (test and prod) by default anyway. We can do something that if the use wants it, we create a static file (from a button in dev ui or something)

[phillip-kruger]

see #37680