# Discourse Bars 🍻 🍸 (a sidebar framework)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bars-a-sidebar-framework/298216
**Category:** Theme component
**Created:** [March 6, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bars-a-sidebar-framework/298216 "2024-03-06T16:17:30Z")
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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bars-a-sidebar-framework/298216/14 "2024-03-06T19:35:00Z")

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Bars is the spiritual successor of [Pavilions Layouts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/layouts-plugin/55208) which came before RSB.

But compared to RSB, mutli-route and multi-position support mainly (Bar’s target is to reproduce the usefulness and flexibility of Layouts), the critical addition being Topic route support. Plus I don’t presently support `params` … I’ve yet to hit a use case. I also don’t bundle any components aside from the demo big letters - this is deliberate and this is meant to be more of an Admin/Developers framework (much like Layouts was).

The roadmap might be more ambitious too - if I get funding I may add the mobile functionality that Layouts had - anyone is free to contact me to sponsor that work.

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