Help me with Livewire architecture

It sounds like you're looking for a way to maintain the state of your sidebar components while also allowing them to react to changes in the main content area. Here's a general approach to structuring your Livewire components to achieve this:

1. Main Layout Component: Create a main layout Livewire component that includes both the main content area and the sidebar. This component will serve as the parent component.

2. Sidebar Components: Create separate Livewire components for each part of the sidebar that you want to navigate independently.

3. State Management: To maintain the state of your sidebar components, you can use Livewire's built-in features like wire:key to preserve the component state across updates.

4. Event Handling: Use Livewire events to communicate between components. When the main content changes in a certain way and you want to update the sidebar, you can emit an event from the main content component and listen for it in the sidebar components.

Here's a simplified example of how you might structure your components:

// MainLayoutComponent.php
class MainLayoutComponent extends Component
{
    public function render()
    {
        return view('livewire.main-layout-component');
    }
}

// SidebarComponentOne.php
class SidebarComponentOne extends Component
{
    protected $listeners = ['refreshComponent' => '$refresh'];

    public function render()
    {
        return view('livewire.sidebar-component-one');
    }
}

// SidebarComponentTwo.php
class SidebarComponentTwo extends Component
{
    protected $listeners = ['refreshComponent' => '$refresh'];

    public function render()
    {
        return view('livewire.sidebar-component-two');
    }
}

// MainContentComponent.php
class MainContentComponent extends Component
{
    public function someAction()
    {
        // Do something that changes the main content...

        // Then emit an event to refresh the sidebar components
        $this->emit('refreshComponent');
    }

    public function render()
    {
        return view('livewire.main-content-component');
    }
}

And in your Blade templates:

{{-- main-layout-component.blade.php --}}
<div>
    <livewire:main-content-component />
    <div class="sidebar">
        <livewire:sidebar-component-one wire:key="sidebar-component-one" />
        <livewire:sidebar-component-two wire:key="sidebar-component-two" />
    </div>
</div>

By using wire:key, you can help Livewire keep track of which component instances to preserve across renders. When you navigate to a new page, ensure that you're not re-rendering the entire layout component, which would reset the state of your sidebar components.

For more advanced state management, you might consider using Livewire's wire:model to bind properties between components or even using a global state management solution like Livewire's wire:entangle with Alpine.js for more complex scenarios.

As for video recommendations, you might want to check out the official Livewire screencasts on the Livewire documentation website, which cover a wide range of topics including component communication and state management.