How to reorder Laravel Nova's navigation including groups?

Question

How to change the order of them, just as a customer would want?

Answer 1

1. You create a copy of Laravel\Nova\Tools\ResourceManager somewhere in you codebase.

2. You add a "files" key to composer.json under "autoload"

   "autoload": {
         "psr-4": {
             "App\\": "app/"
         },
         "classmap": [
             "database/seeds",
             "database/factories"
         ],
         "files": ["app/<your path>/ResourceManager.php"]
   },
   

3. In ResourceManager.php you change

   public function renderNavigation()
   {
       $request = request();
       $groups = Nova::groups($request);
   
       $newNavigation = collect([
           'Group1' => collect([
               Resource1::class,
               Resource2::class,
               Resource3::class,
           ]),
           'Group2' => collect([
               Resource4::class,
               Resource5::class,
           ]),    
       ]);
   
       return view('nova::resources.navigation', [
           'navigation' => $newNavigation,
           'groups' => $groups,
       ]);
   }