Page - Enhance Handling of Sidebar Prop

[jenny-s51]

Describe the enhancement or change
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The current implementation of the Page component in PatternFly requires developers to explicitly pass sidebar={null} to indicate that no sidebar should be rendered.

For more context, see the discussion in opendatahub-io/odh-dashboard#4069 (comment)

To improve the design and usability of the Page component, we can modify the logic so that both null and undefined result in the same behavior (such as to not reserve space for a sidebar). This way, consumers can simply omit the sidebar prop when they do not want a sidebar.

I.e.:

className={css(
    styles.page,
    !sidebar && styles.modifiers.noSidebar, // Apply modifier when sidebar is falsy
    className
)}

Is this request originating from a Red Hat product team? If so, which ones and is there any sort of deadline for this enhancement?

Yes, we have prioritized this in JIRA for the RHOAI dashboard, targeting the end of the sprint: 05/19/25.

[jenny-s51]

Related: #11760 and patternfly/patternfly#7455

[jenny-s51]

After discussion with @thatblindgeye regarding the next steps , closing this issue in favor of #11797 which will be prioritized the next breaking-change release.