diff --git a/extensions/qute/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/qute/deployment/devconsole/QuteDevConsoleProcessor.java b/extensions/qute/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/qute/deployment/devconsole/QuteDevConsoleProcessor.java
index 2a1f8c67f0d63..843cad17ddd03 100644
--- a/extensions/qute/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/qute/deployment/devconsole/QuteDevConsoleProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/qute/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/qute/deployment/devconsole/QuteDevConsoleProcessor.java
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@
 import java.util.Map.Entry;
 import java.util.function.BiFunction;
 
-import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
-
 import io.quarkus.deployment.IsDevelopment;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.BuildStep;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.Record;
@@ -34,8 +32,6 @@
 
 public class QuteDevConsoleProcessor {
 
-    private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(QuteDevConsoleProcessor.class);
-
     @BuildStep
     @Record(value = STATIC_INIT, optional = true)
     DevConsoleRouteBuildItem invokeEndpoint(QuteDevConsoleRecorder recorder) {
@@ -122,7 +118,7 @@ private Map<String, String> processVariants(List<TemplatePathBuildItem> template
         for (String variant : variants) {
             String source = templatePaths.stream().filter(p -> p.getPath().equals(variant))
                     .map(TemplatePathBuildItem::getContent).findFirst()
-                    .orElse(null);
+                    .orElse("");
             source = source.replace("\n", "\\n");
             variantsMap.put(variant, source);
         }