I've installed Magento 2 and set MAGE_MODE=production. However, I'm receiving a lot of JavaScript errors when visiting the home page (requireJS).
I tried flushing the cache and reploying static content files, to no avail.
I'm on the master branch of m2.
Generation of anything on the fly, including static content and classes, is prohibited in production mode. Once you enabled production mode and called setup:static-content:deploy it pre-generated everything needed to render the page. I would also recommend to run setup:di:compile and dev:css:deploy.
Alternatively you can run deploy:mode:set: it enables production mode, regenerates everything needed to be regenerated and changes the permissions on the filesystem. Official documentation is here
deploy:mode:set -- will definitely check that out. Sounds like that should be part of a pre-deployment build process when pushing code out to production.
In MAGE_MODE=production static is not materialized at all. So you need run magento setup:static-content:deploy to materialized it. See more detail in official documentation
So, I removed /var/cache, /var/page_cache, and /var/view_preprocessed, then ran ./bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy. Now, everything is rendering correctly.
Does anyone know why this fixed it? The setup:static-content:deploy command also ran a lot faster after this was done.
