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vmitchell85/nova-links
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Add custom links to your nova navigation

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A Laravel Nova package to display custom links in the sidebar navigation
========================================================================

[](#a-laravel-nova-package-to-display-custom-links-in-the-sidebar-navigation)

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This package leets you add any number of links to the Nova sidebar.

> **Note:** For Nova 3 or earlier use version 1.x

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You can install the package via composer:

```
composer require vmitchell85/nova-links
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Register the tool in the `tools` method of the `NovaServiceProvider`.

```
// app/Providers/NovaServiceProvider.php

// ...

public function tools()
{
    return [
        // ...
        (new \vmitchell85\NovaLinks\Links('Documentation'))
            ->addExternalLink('Laravel Docs', 'https://laravel.com/docs')
            ->addExternalLink('Nova Docs', 'https://nova.laravel.com/docs')
    ];
}
```

### Examples

[](#examples)

Add internal links or external links calling the `addLink` or `addExternalLink` methods respectively.

```
// app/Providers/NovaServiceProvider.php

// ...

public function tools()
{
    return [
        // ...
        (new \vmitchell85\NovaLinks\Links('All Links'))
            ->addLink('Nova Main', '/')
            ->addExternalLink('Laravel Docs', 'https://laravel.com/docs'),
    ];
}
```

You can also change the navigation label by passing a string to the constructor:

```
// app/Providers/NovaServiceProvider.php

// ...

public function tools()
{
    return [
        // ...
        (new \vmitchell85\NovaLinks\Links('Quick Links'))
            ->addLink('Nova Main', '/')
            ->addExternalLink('Frontend', url('/')),

        (new \vmitchell85\NovaLinks\Links('Laravel-related News'))
            ->addExternalLink('Laravel Blog', 'https://blog.laravel.com')
            ->addExternalLink('Laravel News', 'https://laravel-news.com'),
    ];
}
```

To open a link in a new browser window, set the third parameter on `addLink` or `addExternalLink` to `true`:

```
// app/Providers/NovaServiceProvider.php

// ...

public function tools()
{
    return [
        // ...
        (new \vmitchell85\NovaLinks\Links('Laravel-related News'))
            ->addLink('Nova Main', '/', true)
            ->addExternalLink('Laravel News', 'https://laravel-news.com', true),
    ];
}
```

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.

###  Health Score

43

—

FairBetter than 91% of packages

Maintenance19

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity46

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity73

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 53.6% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~208 days

Recently: every ~68 days

Total

9

Last Release

1152d ago

Major Versions

v0.0.1 → v1.02019-03-15

v1.1 → v2.02022-06-23

PHP version history (2 changes)v0.0.1PHP >=7.1.0

v2.0RCPHP ^7.3|^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1248035?v=4)[Vince Mitchell](/maintainers/vmitchell85)[@vmitchell85](https://github.com/vmitchell85)

---

Top Contributors

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---

Tags

laravelnovalaravelnova

###  Code Quality

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