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Spacing at the top of SidebarNav should be configurable

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
65/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start by locating the SidebarNav component and its existing empty Toolbar spacer, then inspect how its component API and footer slot are structured. The change is done when the top and bottom spacing can be configured for layouts using components other than MUI's AppBar, without obscuring the footer slot.

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Description

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Change Proposal: Configurable space at the top and bottom of SidebarNav

SidebarNav was originally created to sit under MUI's AppBar, which uses a Toolbar. Following MUI's own guidance, SidebarNav used an empty Toolbar at the top of the component for perfect alignment with the content in the main section. When some other component is used instead of AppBar e.g. our own NavBar, the space created by Toolbar doesn't match what we want. That space should be configurable. The same is true for a bottom spacer, so that the footer slot is not obscured by a potential status bar.

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