How to debug Magento 2 issues?

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First Step is to check ./var/log directory in Magento 2 installation whether any errors or exceptions in logs, report or you can check the system.log, debug.log.
If you Magento application is in default or production mode then you will see the ‘There has been an error processing your request’ message on page front, grab the report id from that message and check ./var/report directory to get the exact error.
If you want to see the error message directly in the browser , run php bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer command to switch to developer mode.
3rd step is to make sure that you have all the correct permission Use chown(change owner) and chmod (change mode) for you Magento files and folder.
Check the web server logs. Nginx for var/log/nginx and for Apache it’s /var/log/apache2 or /var/log/httpd.
Clear Magento 2 cache files by running the php bin/magento cache:clean command.
you can also add the belwo code in your index.php
- the ini_set(‘display_startup_errors’,1);
- ini_set(‘display_errors’,1);
- error_reporting(-1);

Debug the Frontend JS issue

Check browser console for the errors and resolve accordingly.
If you are using any third party cache like varnish please clear the cache.
Enable the template path hints by navigate to the Go to Admin Panel > Stores > Settings > Configuration > Advanced > Developer > Debug. to know the correct block and phtml file to debug in specific file.

Debug the Knockout JS issue

At first we need to get a Knockout instance from the browser console.
- var ko = require('knockout');
Now we have Knockout instance in the ko variable. We can use it to get a context of any DOM element.

var context = ko.contextFor($0);

where $0 is a special variable in browser console. It contains a link to a DOM element that is last inspected.

// Admin > Products > Catalog > Add Product
// Inspect "Product Name"
var fieldName = ko.contextFor($0).$data;

console.log(fieldName.name); // product_form.product_form.product-details.container_name.name

You can install this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/knockoutjs-context-debugg/oddcpmchholgcjgjdnfjmildmlielhof?hl=en knockout debugger and debug.

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