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I will put here the way to add an attribute group then assign an attribute into all attribute set with this group, please note I am using the dirty way to add it so you will need to follow the Dependency injection in your code to have the same result 

After upgrading Magento to version 2.4.4 and PHP 8.1, you might have this error 

Type Error occurred when creating object: Magento\Framework\Communication\Config\Data, Magento\Framework\Reflection\TypeProcessor::resolveFullyQualifiedClassName(): Argument #2 ($typeName) must be of type string, null given, called in /{magento_root}/vendor/magento/framework/Reflection/TypeProcessor.php on line 550
 

Magento 2 – How to identify current page in phtml file?

$currentFullAction = $block->getRequest()->getFullActionName();

$catpages= array('catalog_category_view','catalog_product_view');

if(in_array($currentFullAction, $catpages)){
    //Catalog page
}

How do you add translation for extensions in Magento2?

Then generate the dictionary with magento shell tool; from :

php bin/magento i18n:collect-phrases -o app/code/{Vendor}/{Module}/i18n/en_US.csv app/code/{Vendor}/{Module}/

do not forget to replace {Vendor} and {Module} with your correct information 

The best approche is to add these files  "checkout_cart_index.xml" and "checkout_index_index.xml" in this directory 

app/design/frontend/{Vendor}/{theme}/Magento_Checkout/layout/

with this content 

checkout_cart_index.xml

How many times you tried to install Magento 2 and later you could not see the website working !!, How many times you tried to search for these sentences 

"Magento 2 css not working"

"Magento 2 js not working"

"Magento 2 404 page not found" because of the static files?

Now here is the solution, and easily it is the missed .htaccess (for apache)

by quick look at this path "{magento root}/pub/static", you will see that you missed the .htaccess file

Go to the Nginx  configuration then you need to edit the line similar to this line 

location ~ (index|get|static|report|404|503)\.php$ {

to be like this 

location ~ (index|get|static|report|404|503|phpinfo)\.php$ {

then restart Nginx 

You can use the Magento 2 CLI to do it, you can check your current search engine using:

php -f bin/magento config:show catalog/search/engine

if you want to change the engine to Elasticseach version 6 then use this command 

php -f bin/magento config:set catalog/search/engine 'elasticsearch6'

In order to redirect a customer from observer you need to use another way than the Controller 

protected $_response;

protected $_objectManager;

public function __construct(
    \Magento\Framework\App\ResponseInterface $response,
    \Magento\Framework\ObjectManagerInterface $objectManager,

    ) {
        $this->_response = $response;
       $this->_objectManager = $objectManager;

   }

then in your function you can use this 

According to Varnish documentation, “A purge is what happens when you pick out an object from the cache and discard it along with its variants.” A Varnish purge is very similar to a Magento cache clean command (or clicking Flush Magento Cache in the Magento Admin).

In fact, as discussed in this section, when you clean, flush, or refresh the Magento cache, Varnish purges as well.

Configure Magento to purge Varnish

execute this code 

bin/magento setup:config:set --http-cache-hosts=192.0.2.100,192.0.2.155:6081