Working with menus

Menu management in the ABP Blazor UI is very similar to the ABP MVC/Razor Pages UI, which was covered in Chapter 12, Working with MVC/Razor Pages.

We use AbpNavigationOptions to add contributors to the menu system. ABP executes all the contributors to build the menu dynamically. The startup solution includes a menu contributor and is added to AbpNavigationOptions as per the following example:

Configure<AbpNavigationOptions>(options =>
{
    options.MenuContributors.Add(new
        DemoAppMenuContributor(
        context.Services.GetConfiguration()));
});

DemoAppMenuContributor is a class that implements the IMenuContributor interface. The IMenuContributor interface defines the ConfigureMenuAsync method, which we should implement as shown in the following example:

public class DemoAppMenuContributor : IMenuContributor
{
    public...