Display the first page as Home

The CMS Questions
1

The idea is to set page as Home page simply by dragging it to the top of the list in the panel.
So in home.php I have:

<?= $pages->template('default')->first()-> ... ?>

I cannot find the way to render a page. How can I achieve it?

2

You can set a custom page as home like that:

return [
  'home' => 'blog'
];

The first page does not mean home.

3

I’d use a route that renders the chosen page:

'routes' => [
    [
        'pattern' => '/',
        'action'  => function() {
         if ( $page = 'define which page here') {  
             return $page->render();     
        }
        $this->next();
    ]
]
4

… or add a field in the home.yml to select that page and in the template home.php “go” to that page.