Making custom changes to the sidebar programmatically

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You may take a look on how chat-plugin is integrated with sidebar:

In this case, state of links are kept in service object and whenever state is changed, sidebar is updated:

A potential solution would be to subscribe to page change event and update links. Pseudocode may look like:

import { tracked } from "@glimmer/tracking";

api.addSidebarSection(
  (BaseCustomSidebarSection, BaseCustomSidebarSectionLink) => {
    const TestSectionLink = class extends BaseCustomSidebarSectionLink {
      // define your custom link properties here
    };

    const SidebarTestSection = class extends BaseCustomSidebarSection {
      @tracked links = [];

      constructor() {
        super(...arguments);

        this.#updateLinks();
        this.onAppEvent("page:changed", () => this.#updateLinks());
      }

      get newLinksArray() {
        // list of links based on current URL
      }

      #updateLinks() {
        this.links = this.newLinksArray.map(
          (link) =>
            new TestSectionLink({
              link,
            })
        );
      }

      get sectionLinks() {
        return this.links;
      }
    };
    return SidebarTestSection;
  }
);