Custom Component for Nav Items

[MinSomai]

Current issue is that I want to put icons in the sidebar nav for each collection.

Having custom component to replace each items in the side nav and ability to edit grups too maybe.

Looks like I already created this in the past: Duplicate: #6768 (comment)

[yonnic]

yea the sidebar really need some attention. Its currently too small and totally "naked". Hope the whole thing can be replaced with a custom component soon

[auduongtuan]

I'm in the same need too 😭 Currently using CSS to achieve this.

[bratvanov]

These are some of the improvements I'd like to see to Payload's admin panel nav component:

• Support for multi-level nesting in navigation groups with configurable visibility (always shown or expandable/collapsible with a chevron). Currently, navigation only goes 1 level deep.
• Allow specifying an SVG icon for nav items via a string path or inline SVG code.
• Enable adding standalone links to the navigation without associating them with a collection or global (e.g for pointing to custom admin routes with custom views).

[MinSomai]

this repo has custom icons example, thanks to the dev

https://github.com/akhrarovsaid/payload-theme-quantum-leap

[MinSomai]

this is interesting too, with plugin

https://github.com/tatsuyakari1203/payload-sidebar

[MinSomai]

another interesting one
https://github.com/VeiaG/payload-enhanced-sidebar

[Mhmod-Hsn]

I've built a simple plugin to achieve what you need,
https://github.com/Mhmod-Hsn/Payload-Advanced-Sidebar
most welcome for improvements