collapsed sidebar is not persistent after page refresh

[vosdev]

after refresh it goes back to:

[vosdev]

When I collapsed the sidebar and I resize my browser window it also immediately opens

[edlerd]

Yes, we do not store the menu's collapsed/expanded state in any way at the moment. I am not sure if we should start storing the user's choice.

Currently we expand/collapse the main navigation on browser window resize when crossing specific width breakpoints. So a user can toggle the main navigation, but the UI will override the user's choice on resize of the page.

I think the current behavior is the best choice. Storing the user's choice would fail to give a good experience on resize or on returning with a different window size. And the assumption that the user always wants the side panel small or big is not holding if they use differently sized browser windows:

If the user expands navigation, we were to store that choice in a cookie. The user comes back later with a tiny browser window. It would be wrong to present them with an expanded menu.

I think this is a tradeoff, and there is no correct choice here. Personally leaning to the current behavior.

[vosdev]

Currently we expand/collapse the main navigation on browser window resize when crossing specific width breakpoints. So a user can toggle the main navigation, but the UI will override the user's choice on resize of the page.

What a lot of other webpages do is only open/close the menu once youve reached these breakpoints.

If I'm resizing from 1200 to 1000 and the breakpoint is at 800, the menu can stay as it is. Open or closed. But I'm no webdev and I don't know if this would be at all possible.

Right now it's modified the millisecond I modify my window size by 1 pixel, regardless of how far the breakpoints are.

I agree that there are always issues no matter what solution you choose.