Suggestions on storing menu state

#1

My requirement is to allow the user to minimize a left navigation pane. I now have this working using Alpine but as the user navigates, the page is reloaded and Alpine is initialized with the default value.

I could store the state on the user or in the session - any suggestions as to best handle this to ensure if the menu was minified, when I navigate to another route, that the menu stays minified?

Would it be better to switch this to a Livewire component? Use View composer? I can make this work but I could be overlooking a better way. Thanks for the help.

#2

You can use cookie, local storage, async post request to store setting. Of cause you can wrap header into livewire component, but then you will re-render whole header every time you collapse/expand.

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#3

Yes, I decided to do something simple and have a async post to set a session variable. Seems to work fine. Thanks for the suggestions.