PWA Studio - limit the use of buttons in welcome views

[miguelsolorio]

Hello, I work on the VS Code team and we have extension guidelines for welcome views (what you show when there is no content) and we strongly encourage extensions to limit the use of buttons so as to not overload the user. Below is a summary of the recommendations:

✔️ Do:

• Use Welcome views only when necessary
• Use links instead of buttons when possible
• Use buttons only for primary actions
• Use clear link text to indicate the link destination
• Limit the length of the content
• Limit the number of Welcome views
• Limit the number of buttons in views

❌ Don't

• Use buttons if not necessary
• Use Welcome views for promotions
• Use generic "read more" as link text

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[jgw96]

@misolori In your opinion, with the latest release that moved alot of the buttons at the bottom to this side panel, is this issue still relevant? I would very much like to have the buttons that are there currently as they are the "main actions" of the extension. However, I very much want to follow best practices.

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[miguelsolorio]

I think you can still surface this actions in the toolbar, see the GitHub Pull Requests extension that does a similar thing:

[jgw96]

@misolori Thanks! We are still evaluating our design and I will let you know what changes we make here. Thanks!