Added info about startPage to routing docs

digitallyinduced · Aug 13, 2020 · aaff23d · aaff23d
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 Now you can open e.g. `/Posts` to access the `PostsAction`.
 
+## Changing the Start Page / Home Page
+
+You can define a custom start page action using the `startPage` function like this:
+
+```haskell
+instance FrontController WebApplication where
+    controllers = 
+        [ startPage ProjectsAction
+        -- Generator Marker
+        ]
+```
+
+In a new IHP project, you usually have a `startPage WelcomeAction` defined. Make sure to remove this line. Otherwise you will still see the default IHP welcome page.
+
 ## Url Generation
 
 Use `pathTo` to generate a path to a given action: