The SideMenu component should be used as the content of your UI as well as the ComponentContainer for your Navigator. It provides simplified API for adding navigation menus as well as menu entries with custom code. An example with all the features is available in the GitHub in the demo submodule. Please note that this add-on depends on a theme feature of the Valo theme and will not work with other themes. Tested with Vaadin 7.4+. Might also work with 7.3+. Works with all browsers supported by Vaadin 7.