Name Change - app.html to index.html

This issue isn’t about a bug

So the language of the web is HTML right? A video from Rich Harris. Then why use app.html instead of index.html? The first file that beginner developer creates is index.html so because of those two reasons I think it’s best to change app.html to index.html. I know that SvelteKit isn’t even the beta or alpha (or whatever) release but, in Sapper, the name of the main HTML file is index.html so I thought maybe in SvelteKit it’s going to be app.html. I hope I’m not being ridden by creating such a request.

[babichjacob]

People using Sapper saw the index.html file and thought they could just send the src file to their HTTP server and it start working, but it doesn’t. Let’s not have that happen again in SvelteKit.

[babakfp]

It is a template. It’s used for serving all SSR’d pages. I don’t see why we would want to call it index.html. That this is a filename people are already familiar with seems to be a counterargument, because it doesn’t have the meaning they’d be familiar with.

It’s the same because it doesn’t matter that SvelteKit going to generate the code dynamically. What does the beginner developer say at the first time that sees app.html and the second time that sees its content? First time: “Ok we have a .html file with the name of app. What does it contain?” Second time: “Ahah, It’s the same as the index.html (or it’s the index page or…)”.

It’s just one simple way to get the point. There is no reason to name it app.html and make it “not one way to the point”.