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Add switch to toggle between current navigation and alpha of new nav

Thomas Hutterer requested to merge opt-in-new-nav-2023 into master

What does this MR do and why?

Behind a FF, adds a new entry to the user dropdown that allows to switch between the current and the new navigation (&9044).

The toggle is implemented as a Vue app, so we can reuse the same code for toggling back from within the new "super sidebar" navigation.

This MR is only about the toggle itself. When enabled, there is nothing different yet. We'll implement the navigation behind the FF introduced in this MR. This is only the first step of many 👣

Resolves #378666 (closed).

Screenshots or screen recordings

👉 I've enabled the FF in the review app, too.

new_nav_toggle_draft3

(In the recording you can still see a "Provide feedback" link, which was only a stub. We've removed it from the code while it's not yet implemented.)

How to set up and validate locally

  • Enable the feature flag for your user:
Feature.enable(:super_sidebar_nav, User.first)

  • With the FF enabled, you should see a toggle in the top-right user dropdown. It should be disabled!

  • Toggle it, which should reload the page.

  • There currently is no visual difference, except for the toggle itself which should now show as enabled.

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Edited by Thomas Hutterer

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