vuejs-sidebar-menu

A simple Vue 3 plugin to create a sidebar menu.

Demo

View a demo | Sandbox

Dependencies

The plugin was created with Vue 3 and is designed to work with vue-router.

| Name | Version | | ----------------- |---------- | | core-js | 3.8.3 | | vue | 3.2.13 | | vue-router | 4.0.13 |

Project setup

npm install --save vuejs-sidebar-menu

Global registration

main.js:

import { createApp } from 'vue'
import App from './App.vue'

import SidebarMenu from 'vuejs-sidebar-menu'
import 'vuejs-sidebar-menu/dist/vuejs-sidebar-menu.css'

createApp(App).use(SidebarMenu).mount('#app')

Local registration

App.vue:

<script>
import { SidebarMenu } from 'vuejs-sidebar-menu'
import 'vuejs-sidebar-menu/dist/vuejs-sidebar-menu.css'

export default {
    components: {
        SidebarMenu
    }
}
</script>

Basic usage

App.vue:

<template>
    <sidebar-menu :items="items" />

    <div class="container">
        <router-view/>  
    </div>
</template>

<script>
import { SidebarMenu } from 'vuejs-sidebar-menu'
import 'vuejs-sidebar-menu/dist/vuejs-sidebar-menu.css'

export default {
    components: {
        SidebarMenu
    },
    data() {
        return {
            items: [
                { name:"My space", tooltip:"Mon tooltip Spécifique", icon:"bx-user", href:"/" },
                { name:"My Favorites", icon:"bxs-star", href:"/favorites" },
                { name:"Players", icon:"bxs-user-detail", href:"/players" },
                { name:"Clubs", icon:"bxs-school", href:"/clubs" },
                { name:"Competitions", icon:"bxs-trophy", href:"/competitions" },
                { isFooter:true, tooltip:"Vue.js Facebook page", icon:"bxl-facebook", href:"https://fr-fr.facebook.com/vuejsdevelopers" },
                { isFooter:true, tooltip:"Vue.js Twitter page", icon:"bxl-twitter", href:"https://twitter.com/vuejs" },
                { isFooter:true, tooltip:"Vue.js LinkedIn page", icon:"bxl-linkedin", href:"https://www.linkedin.com/company/vuejsdevelopers" }
            ]
        }
    }
}
</script>

<style>
* {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    box-sizing: border-box;

    /* Remove cursor "|" in html balise */
    -moz-user-select: none;
    -webkit-user-select: none;
    user-select: none;
}

#app {
  display: flex;
  font-family: Avenir, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
  -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
  text-align: center;
  color: #2c3e50;
}

.container {
  flex-basis: 100%;
  background-color: white;
  height: 100vh;
  overflow-y: auto;
}
</style>

Component properties

| Name | Type | Default | Example | | ----------------- |:--------- | -------- | -------- | | items | String[] :{name: String,tooltip: String,icon: String,href: String,isFooter: Boolean} | [] | {name:"My Favorites",tooltip:"Mon tooltip Spécifique",icon:"bxs-star",href:"/favorites",isFooter:false}| | isOpened | Boolean | true | | | width | Number | 250 | | | logo | String | logo.png (image in src/assets) | | | textColor | String | white | | | bgColorPrimary | String | rgb(41, 40, 40) | | | bgColorSecondary| String | #080a0c | | | bgColorHover | String | #41b883 | |

Explanations of the properties of items:
If the tooltip property is not set, the name property is used by default.

By default, the icons in the sidebar use the boxicons' library
The value of the icon property takes a class name defined in this library.
It is possible to use another icon library such as Font Awesome but you will need to import the necessary files for this library.

The href property can contain a relative link or a http link.
In the case of the relative link, the vue-router plugin is used.
In the case of the http link, it will be opened in a new tab.

If the isFooter property is not set, the element will be placed in the sidebar content

Example with custom parameters:

<template>
    <sidebar-menu 
      :items="items" 
      :isOpened="true"
      :width="300"
      logo="logo.png"  
      textColor="#41b883"
      bgColorPrimary="rgb(41, 40, 40)"
      bgColorSecondary="#080a0c"
      bgColorHover="white"
      />
</template>

Slots

Override sidebar header

By default, the sidebar header contains the logo "logo.png" present in the assets and an icon allowing to reduce/enlarge the panel.

SidebarMenu.vue:

<template>
    ...
    <div class="sidebar-header">
        <slot name="header">
            <img id="sidebar-logo" alt="Vue logo" :src="require(`@/assets/${logo}`)">
            <i class="bx" :class="isOpened ? 'bx-menu-alt-right' : 'bx-menu'" @click="isOpened = !isOpened" />
        </slot>
    </div>
</template>

You can totally change this behaviour:

App.vue:

<template>
    <sidebar-menu :items="items">
        <!-- Add custom header -->
        <template #header>
            <img id="sidebar-logo" alt="Vue logo" style="height:60px" :src="require(`@/assets/logo.png`)">
            <div>
                <p>My scrollbar title</p>
            </div>
      </template>
    </sidebar-menu>
</template>

Override sidebar content

By default, the sidebar content is filled with items whose isFooter property is unspecified or set to false.

SidebarMenu.vue:

<template>
    ...
    <div class="sidebar-content" :class="hasScroll ? 'scroll': ''">
        <ul>
            <slot>
                <sidebar-item v-for="item in contentItems" :key="item" 
                    :name="item.name" 
                    :tooltip="item.tooltip" 
                    :icon="item.icon" 
                    :href="item.href" />
            </slot>
        </ul>
    </div>
    ...
</template>

You can totally change this behaviour:

App.vue:

<template>
    <sidebar-menu :items="items">
        <!-- Add custom content -->
        <li class="sidebar-item"><a>My link 1</a></li>
        <li class="sidebar-item"><a>My link 2</a></li>
        <li class="sidebar-item"><a>My link 3</a></li>
        <li class="sidebar-item"><a>My link 4</a></li>
    </sidebar-menu>
</template>

Override sidebar footer

By default, the sidebar footer is filled with items whose isFooter property is set to true.

SidebarMenu.vue:

<template>
    ...
    <div class="sidebar-footer" v-if="hasFooter">
        <ul>
            <slot name="footer">
                <sidebar-item v-for="item in footerItems" :key="item" 
                    :name="item.name" 
                    :tooltip="item.tooltip" 
                    :icon="item.icon" 
                    :href="item.href" />
            </slot>
        </ul>
    </div>
</template>

You can totally change this behaviour:

App.vue:

<template>
    <sidebar-menu :items="items">
        <!-- Add custom footer -->
        <template #footer>
            <p class="sidebar-footer-content">(c) My company 2022</p>
        </template>
    </sidebar-menu>
</template>