Merge pull request #30936 from backstage/create-app-home-redirect

[NFS] (create-app): redirect from home to catalog

.changeset/brave-bugs-know.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/create-app': patch
+---
+
+Creates a plugin that redirects from the Home page to the Catalog index page to avoid seeing a not found page error when starting the app.

packages/create-app/templates/next-app/app-config.yaml.hbs

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ app:
   title: Scaffolded Backstage App
   baseUrl: http://localhost:3000
 
+  # Enable all packages by default, this will discover packages from packages/app/package.json
   packages: all
 
   extensions:
@@ -11,6 +12,11 @@ app:
     - nav-item:catalog: false
     - nav-item:scaffolder: false
 
+    # Configure the catalog index page to be the root page, this is normally mounted on /catalog
+    - page:catalog:
+        config:
+          path: /
+
 
 organization:
   name: My Company