Setting up a welcome page for a Team Project

It is hard to summarize the objective of the Team Project by just its name or description. Software Teams are usually found creating introduction documents or README files to summarize the purpose of the project with references to other useful material. Traditionally, Teams would store these files in SharePoint. This information is all the more useful when seen in context with the Team Project. A new feature called project welcome pages provides the perfect solution here. In this recipe, you'll learn how to set up welcome pages using markdown files.

Getting ready

Project welcome pages are created using a very simple convention-based approach. The welcome page simply renders the markdown files checked ...

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