Please allow me to collapse the side-menus in the docs

[Svish]

When browsing the Next.js docs, the breakpoints for when the menus collapse can be quite unhelpful. It's good that they do collapse, but it would be very helpful if I could also decide to override it. I for example wanted to have the docs next to my editor in a narrow window, but the breakpoints forces me to have it more narrow than I'd like to.

Here's an example of the width I'd like the window to be, but as you can see the content ends up as like 3 words per line and the only way to get more space is to either make the window wider, or even more narrow.

[gilangabdian]

Yeah, I just tried it out and the result is exactly as you described; however, if I widen the non-Next.js section, the Next.js site hides its menu—meaning you have to click the menu button on the Next.js site itself to switch views. Personally, I find it more readable when the non-Next.js section is wider, even if the behavior isn't quite what you originally intended.

However, I agree that the menu could be collapsed to allow for wider content documentation. I think you can make a PR for this feature or make a feature request issue.

[Svish]

Not sure I understand what you mean with "the non-Next.js section", are you talking about the window to the right of the Next.js docs in your screenshot? If you find that personally more readable, that's fine, but it was the Next.js docs that I wanted wider so it fits more content on a single page, while not taking up too much space horizontally. Basically, the breapoints work such that the docs are never the width I want, except when I make the window super wide, which is annoying.

The window is narrow, so I widen it, and as I'm getting to the width I want, the left sidemenu pops up and steals most of the space. So I have continue widen it even more, and then the right sidemenu pops open and steals space, so I have to widen it again, and at that point the Next.js docs basically take up my whole monitor. Both sidemenus should be toggleable in my opinion.

When I go to issues, "New issue", and select "Feature or documentation request", then this is where I end up, so this is my feature request. 🙂

[gilangabdian]

Yes, hopefully they process the feature you requested soon.

[icyJoseph]

Hiyo, I'll look into this. For what is worth, shouldn't you have been able to create a Documentation type issue? No need to at this point, but that should have worked.

[Svish]

I must have skipped that one, probably thought of "issue" more as a bug, while this felt more like a feature request. But yeah, it does also feel a bit broken, so maybe reporting it as an issue would've fit well. 😅

Either way, thanks for looking into it!

[icyJoseph]

No worries, we'll iterate this though, first the very narrow screen drawer menu will be available at wider breakpoints, rather than the docked sidebar