Get AEM 56 Sidekick instance and disable the components panel

Goal

In your javascript code of a component, get the sidekick (CQ.wcm.Sidekick) instance and disable the components panel

Often situations arise where you need to play with the sidekick of AEM (CQ5) instance and do some customization. This is not Adobe recommended or suggested approach. It's just a way to get the sidekick and do operations on sidekick components.

Here is the sidekick components panel

Tested on 

Adobe Experience Manager ( AEM 561 )

Implementation

In your component jsp add the following script

Result