Redoc: Add an option to disable the side menu?

[piao-mdsol]

Hi, what do you think about adding an option to disable the side menu (not rendering it to the DOM)?

Rationale:

• Give users the option to opt out
• More performant
• Less issues with scrolling

In my use case, I've been using CSS to hide the side menu as I have other sidebar to show.
And recently, I've bumped into an issue with the scroll (similar to https://github.com/Redocly/redoc/issues/1177), I ended up adding a callback to remove the side menu as it turns out to be the quick-fix:

Redoc.init(spec, {
  disableSearch: true
},
document.querySelector("redoc"),
function() {
  document.querySelector(".menu-content").remove();
});

If we get a greenlight on this, maybe we can work on a PR to make it happen 🙂
Thanks!

[RomanHotsiy]

I think this option can be added. Could you elaborate on your use case though?

[piao-mdsol]

@RomanHotsiy thanks, good to confirm that 🙂

Our use case is that we have our own sidebar that contains hand-crafted links like API guideline, changelog, and top-level grouped API pages, etc. For each ReDoc API page, we also have a custom table of contents links aboe of the API doc, so we don't need the default ReDoc side menu (been hiding them via css).

[c3rajkaramchedu]

I support this option. We use ReDoc exclusively for our COVID API docs, and would love to remove the right side bar.

[c3rajkaramchedu]

Related: https://github.com/Redocly/redoc/issues/1234.