[bug]: Minicart is missing on /checkout

[Jordaneisenburger]

Describe the bug When you go to /checkout you are not able to edit your cart. I'm aware this is done on purpose probably for the reason of the "no distractions in checkout" rule. But In that case I feel you either need to minimize the whole header or keep the minicart trigger in the header. Pretty sure most agencies are gonna swap it back anyway.

This is for example how we've done it.

To reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Add item to cart
2. Go to checkout
3. Try to edit your cart

Expected behavior I'd expect there to be a option to edit my cart in the checkout.

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Possible solutions Also show the minicart on the checkout page

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[sirugh]

As you already stated, we intentionally hide the mini cart trigger on the checkout page. We went back and forth on it but I think the decision was honestly split. It would be trivial to add back but I think we need to consider the options such as:

a) hiding the entire header on /checkout b) hiding all clickable/actionable elements from the header on /checkout

So I would not consider this a bug but a feature request. And for folks who want to display the mini cart trigger, they just need to extend the talon and always return hideCartTrigger: false or customize their component and ignore the boolean return from the talon.

[Jordaneisenburger]

Your right it should be a feature request since it was intentionally hidden. I personally don't see why removing this functionality would improve checkout experience. But then again I'm not a UX designer so if you guys have already had discussions about this we can close it.