The var directory
Magento does a lot of caching and autogeneration of certain class types. These caches and generated classes are all located in Magento's root var
directory. The usual contents of the var
directory is as follows:
cache composer_home generation log di view_preprocessed page_cache
During development, we will most likely need to periodically clear these so that our changes can kick in.
We can issue the console command as follows to clear individual directories:
rm -rf {Magento root dir}/var/generation/*
Alternatively, we can use the built-in bin/magento
console tool to trigger commands that will delete the proper directories for us, as follows:
bin/magento setup:upgrade
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