From aaff23d44edbad143a95ec37b55e41be70352060 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Scholten <marc@digitallyinduced.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 09:41:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added info about startPage to routing docs

---
 Guide/routing.markdown | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Guide/routing.markdown b/Guide/routing.markdown
index 907380736..1142f6569 100644
--- a/Guide/routing.markdown
+++ b/Guide/routing.markdown
@@ -26,6 +26,20 @@ instance FrontController WebApplication where
 
 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: