Thanks for sharing your code!

Best regards

Managed to find a way to have the proper category drop down if your on a route that is an item of that category. It may not be the best way but it works for now

I added

computed: {
  currentPage () {
    return this.$route.path
  }
},

then

<mdb-side-nav-cat name="Posts" icon="image" :show="currentPage.includes('post') ? true : false">
        <mdb-side-nav-item @click.native="toggle=false" icon="folder-open" slimIcon="folder-open" to="/dashboard/list/post">All posts</mdb-side-nav-item>
        <mdb-side-nav-item @click.native="toggle=false" icon="plus-circle" slimIcon="plus-circle" to="/dashboard/add/post">Add New</mdb-side-nav-item>
      </mdb-side-nav-cat>
      <mdb-side-nav-cat name="Pages" icon="image" :show="currentPage.includes('page') ? true : false">
        <mdb-side-nav-item @click.native="toggle=false" icon="folder-open" slimIcon="folder-open" to="/dashboard/list/page">All Pages</mdb-side-nav-item>
        <mdb-side-nav-item @click.native="toggle=false" icon="plus-circle" slimIcon="plus-circle" to="/dashboard/add/page">Add New</mdb-side-nav-item>
      </mdb-side-nav-cat>

Since I know a common element in each category I just toggle the show based on if it finds it in the path

I have the item set as active. just trying to figure out how to put "show" on the right category when the page is loaded. as they load collapsed by default.

Hi there,

First of all you need to check which category is active and add show attribute to open it by default (mdb-side-nav-cat)

Then you have to check which item is active and add active attribute to it (mdb-side-nav-item)

Also make sure to add an extra css rule for active href, i.e.:

a[active] {
  color: red !important;
}

Best regards