Problems disabling ionic 4 side menu on initialization

Ionic Framework
1

Hello,

I am trying to disable the side-menu in ionic 4 at the start of the appliaction execution. But it seems like the menu button is not available at that time. I tried to disable the button in the constructor method and in the ngAfterViewInit method but nothing is working. The only way I can disable the menu button is with a setTimeout of 1000ms or more. Bellow is the code that i am using.

Best regards Anže

const timer = (time: number) => {
  return new Promise((resolve: any, reject: any) => {
    setTimeout(_ => resolve(), time);
  });
};


AppComponent implements AfterViewInit {
  constructor(private menu: MenuController) {
  }

  async ngAfterViewInit() {
    try {
      await timer(1000); // fix for menu to work
      const menus = await this.menu.getMenus();
      await this.menu.enable(false);
      console.log(menus);
    } catch (err) {
      console.log(err);
    }
  }
}



   ionic (Ionic CLI)          : 4.1.2 (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic)
   Ionic Framework            : @ionic/angular 4.0.0-beta.8
   @angular-devkit/core       : 0.7.5
   @angular-devkit/schematics : 0.7.5
   @angular/cli               : 6.1.5
   @ionic/ng-toolkit          : 1.0.8
   @ionic/schematics-angular  : 1.0.6

Cordova:

   cordova (Cordova CLI) : 8.0.0
   Cordova Platforms     : none
   Cordova Plugins       : no whitelisted plugins (1 plugins total)

System:

   Android SDK Tools : 26.1.1 (/Users/amatelic/Library/Android/sdk)
   NodeJS            : v10.9.0 (/usr/local/Cellar/node/10.9.0/bin/node)
   npm               : 6.2.0
   OS                : macOS High Sierra
   Xcode             : Xcode 9.4.1 Build version 9F2000
2

Maybe you could do the contrary, disable per default the menu and enable it when you are ready

in app.component.html:

<ion-menu disabled="true">

and then when you are ready

await this.menu.enable(true);
3

thanks for the answer your solution is working. I tried the same with auto-hide=“true” but the result was different

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