Hidden sidebar causing other plugins issues

[markbattistella]

Bug Report

Steps to reproduce

1. Setup fresh site
2. Add config:

   window.$docsify = {
    name: '',
    repo: '',
   
    // cover page doc
    coverpage: true,
    homepage: 'home.md',
   
    // remove sidebar
    hideSidebar: true,
   
    // auto scroll to top
    auto2top: true
   }

3. Create two or more md pages:
   1. home.md -- add 2x href to page1 and page2
   2. page1.md -- add 2x href to home and page2
   3. page2.md -- add 2x href to home and page1
4. Launch http://localhost:3000
5. From /#/home in console no errors
   1. Click on page1 link
   2. Continue to cycle through pages without hard refresh

What is current behaviour

After first load and the sidebar is removed, any other navigation to other pages triggers the .remove which fails since the element is already gone.

If the error is hit, then following plugins dont run until a hard reload.

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'remove' of null
 at Vn.Xn._renderSidebar (docsify.min.js:1)
 at Vn.Pn (docsify.min.js:1)
 at docsify.min.js:1
 at o (docsify.min.js:1)
 at B (docsify.min.js:1)
 at t (docsify.min.js:1)
 at docsify.min.js:1
 at docsify.min.js:1
 at docsify.min.js:1
 at On (docsify.min.js:1)

Line 4150: return document.querySelector("aside.sidebar").remove(),

What is the expected behaviour

Error doesn't occur, and doesn't stop other scripts from running.

Other relevant information

• Bug does still occur when all/other plugins are disabled?

• Your OS: macOS

• Node.js version: 14.8.0

• npm/yarn version: 6.14.8

• Browser version:

• Docsify version: 4.11.6

• Docsify plugins:

[sy-records]

If you have a hideSidebar, why do you need to operate the sidebar?

---

Okay, I see fixme, any new ideas? @anikethsaha

docsify/src/core/render/index.js

Lines 134 to 140 in ae45b32

	// FIXME : better styling solution
	document.querySelector('aside.sidebar').remove();
	document.querySelector('button.sidebar-toggle').remove();
	document.querySelector('section.content').style.right = 'unset';
	document.querySelector('section.content').style.left = 'unset';
	document.querySelector('section.content').style.position = 'relative';
	document.querySelector('section.content').style.width = '100%';

[anikethsaha]

Yes, I was not 100% comfortable with styling like these. so marked as fixme inorder to re-iterate here again.

[markbattistella]

@sy-records I was making a single page layout with hard coded navigation and noticed that other plugins weren't loading. Everything was stopping after the .remove was failing since the sidebar was already hidden and removed

[jhildenbiddle]

This issue has been addressed by PR #2469. The changes will be available when Docsify v5 is released.