Vertical Layouts
You can change or customize the left side navigation very easily.
How to add new menu items/change menu items?
In order to add, change or remove menu items from the left side navigation, simply edit in file
resources/views/layouts/sidebar.blade.php
. The change would reflect in all the html files automatically.
How to change width?
In order to change the width of left side navigation bar, open a file
resources/scss/_variables.scss
and change the value of variable
$sidebar-width
. The default value is set to 240px
.
How to use pre-built layouts?
Each of the layout options is provided below with steps you would need to perform:

Light Sidebar
Remove data attributedata-sidebar="light"
body element to have light sidebar.

Colored Sidebar
Add data attributedata-sidebar="colored"
body element to have Colored sidebar.

Compact Sidebar
Keep your body element with data attributedata-sidebar-size="small"
E.g. <body data-sidebar-size="small">
to have small sidebar.

Icon Sidebar
Keep your body element with classvertical-collpsed"
E.g. <body class="vertical-collpsed">
to have icon sidebar.

Boxed Layout
Keep your body element with classvertical-collpsed
and data attribute data-layout-size="boxed" data-keep-enlarged="true"
E.g. <body class="vertical-collpsed" data-layout-size="boxed" data-keep-enlarged="true">
to have boxed layout with icon view sidebar.

Preloader
In order to add pre-loader in your page, include following html afterbody
element.
<div id="preloader">
<div id="status">
<div class="spinner-chase">
<div class="chase-dot"></div>
<div class="chase-dot"></div>
<div class="chase-dot"></div>
<div class="chase-dot"></div>
<div class="chase-dot"></div>
<div class="chase-dot"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>