Hi everyone,
After using Magento 1 for a few years, I decided to upgrade one of my clients website to Magento 2 however, it was not an easy task to do as the overall architecture and code base has changed in M2. To be honest, I must say that Magento 2 is much easier to code compared to M1 but it will take a while to understand the structure and code base, and trust me you will face quite a few bugs and errors in the system.
Recently I noticed that on my client’s website, the mini cart stopped working and did not show any products in the popup. As a developer, I knew that the products were added in the system and I tested it by going directly to the checkout page: http://mywebsite.xyz/checkout/cart; so what I did was the following:
- Checked System.log and exception.log files
- Checked browser’s Developer’s network tabs to read the request/response
- Made sure that Magento was up to date because this issue was raised in Magento 2.0 and then Magento fixed it in Magento 2.1
You can check all Magento2 articles here.
After upgrading Magento, the issue was still there so I did the very basic thing; I made sure that caching was disabled and then enabled it. After I enabled the cache, I realised that some of the blocks were invalidated so I flushed the cache storage and tested everything on the frontend again. Everything was normal and read to deploy to the production website.
