Show "Explore GitLab" sidebar on all Explore pages
What does this MR do and why?
Implements #384879 (closed).
With this MR, we show a new Explore sidebar on all our /explore pages. This sidebar links to all different section of Explore, like Explore projects, Explore groups etc.
This allows us to remove a couple of tab navigation links from the user's dashboard pages, like /dashboard/projects, which had a "Explore" tabs, linking to the pages that are now all part of the Explore sidebar.
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The dashboard ("Your work") pages
All of the "Explore" tabs got removed from the dashboard pages. Instead there is a normal text link pointing you to the corresponding Explore pages. Also the "Topics" got promoted from a tab here to its own page in Explore.
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The "Explore" pages
All these pages used to be styled as tabs of the above dashboard pages. Now they got promoted to proper pages with title and sidebar.
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How to set up and validate locally
While this MR enables the new "Explore" sidebar also for the upcoming new navigation, I recommend to review this MR with the super_sidebar_nav feature flag disabled first, as there is also a small change in the current nav's main menu.
- Open any page and click the main menu (top-left
🍔 next to the Tanuki logo) - You'll see a new link to the Explore section. Click it.
- The default explore page is "Explore projects". See the sidebar on the left. Navigate to all other explore pages, check sidebar menu item active states.
- Use the main menu now to navigate to the "Your work" section. This menu entry is also new.
- Go to your projects and see the link that points you to "Explore projects". This used to be a tab.
- Same for your groups and snippets.
- Extra mile: Sign out and go to any page (that has the topbar), like
/root. Open the top-right🍔 which now also has a link to Explore topics.
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