Navigating easily with simple-sidebar jQuery plugin

In this chapter, we will utilize the jQuery simple-sidebar plugin to achieve a mobile menu that appears as a sidebar. The plugin is The plugin website can be accessed via https://simple-sidebar.github.io/simpler-sidebar/.

To make things easier, we will use GitCDN for this plugin's files.

Getting ready

To get ready, look at the setup instructions. These instructions are available at the official website for the plugin.

How to do it…

1. Since we are showcasing a different navbar, we need to change the structure of our project a bit. First, we will alter the _data.json file inside the app folder. Specifically, we need to alter the entry that starts with recipe06-09, beginning on line 29:

 // below code starts at line 29 of _data.json:
"recipe06-09": {
 "title": "Recipe 06-09: Navigate Easily with a Custom Offcanvas Navbar",
 "layout": "_layout06-09" // newly added line - specifies an alternate layout for this page only
 },

2. Now we can add the layout...