I'd like to remove the sidebar from the onepage checkout in magento 2 as defined in checkout_index_index
<item name="sidebar" xsi:type="array">
<item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="string">50</item>
<item name="component" xsi:type="string">Magento_Checkout/js/view/sidebar</item>
<item name="displayArea" xsi:type="string">sidebar</item>
<item name="config" xsi:type="array">
<item name="template" xsi:type="string">Magento_Checkout/sidebar</item>
<item name="deps" xsi:type="array">
<item name="0" xsi:type="string">checkout.steps</item>
</item>
</item>
<item name="children" xsi:type="array">
......
I thought it would just be a case of deleting the xml but if I do that I get PHP errors telling me the sidebar index is undefined. Does anyone know of a way I can get rid of this without just hiding it with CSS/templates? or will it be a case of completely re-writing the checkout module? Thank you in advance.