Display custom 404 page for non existent routes

[Rahulm2310]

Actual Behaviour Currently when we navigate to non-existent routes, we get a default 404 page which gives a negative experience.

Expected Behaviour We can have a custom 404 page when a user navigates to any non-existent route to turn a potentially negative experience into a positive one.

Steps to reproduce it

1. Go to https://p5js.org/abc or any other non-existing route.

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Would you like to work on the issue? YES

[Rahulm2310]

@lmccart @limzykenneth what do you say 🙂

[limzykenneth]

I think this needs some settings tweaking on the server itself. You can create a 404 page as a static page I think but the server needs to be setup to serve it when encountering a 404.

[Rahulm2310]

ok, @limzykenneth do we need to we create a middleware to handle this in the grunt file? or how exactly should we handle it

[limzykenneth]

That's not necessary, a static page can be created which the server can be setup to serve when it encounters a 404. The server setup requires access to the actual server running the p5.js website and doesn't need anything else to be changed in this repo.

[Rahulm2310]

@limzykenneth that means should I just create a static 404 page and submit a PR and then other stuff would be handled by maintainers?

[limzykenneth]

I would ping @lmccart or perhaps @outofambit on how they would like to handle this as they probably have access to the server hosting the website.