The flat top bar was a set of ungrouped peers and gave plugin data no home.
Move to a persistent left sidebar with grouped sections, per the navigation
redesign (operator-chosen shell).
- base.html: top <nav> → left <aside class="sidebar"> + content column.
Groups: Overview (Dashboard, Status), Infrastructure (Hosts; plugin links
arrive in slice 2), Monitoring (Monitors, Alerts), Automation (Ansible),
Admin (Settings, Audit; admin-only). Brand on top, user/logout at the bottom.
- Active link highlighted by request.path prefix (aria-current).
- Responsive: sidebar slides off-canvas under 900px via a ☰ toggle + scrim
(inline class toggle, no new JS deps). Candle-glow preserved.
- Logged-out pages (login/setup) render without the sidebar (gated on
session.user_id), content area full-width and centered as before.
- Add tests/test_templates_parse.py: syntax-parses every steward template so a
broken tag fails the unit lane (only the login page renders there today).
Plugin nav links (Docker/SNMP/UniFi/Traefik) come next in slice 2 via a get_nav
hook. UI-only; no behavior/route changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Jg27rgypiW2efULXJDtMC
