Retry logic in async action creators for cart causes infinite loops

[ericerway]

Experiencing an infinite loop in devtools when trying to add to cart when using a Cloud instance of 2.3.0.

Note: For users on slower machines, this is very difficult to debug as it crashes the browser tab.

[DrewML]

Another developer attempting to contribute to venia-concept yesterday hit this infinite loop just visiting the homepage after starting up the app for local dev.

I haven't seen the code behind this at all, but a wild guess would be some attempted error recovery when calling out to the REST APIs.

Update: I'm now replicating this locally. Definitely the retry logic. Doesn't seem to have a working exit condition.

[DrewML]

Looks like several of the async action creators in cart/asyncActions.js do a retry upon failure, and the code has no max retry logic. Can quickly see by searching for the string retry in that file

[mhhansen]

same thing happened to me yesterday when I was testing the PWAServer refactor,
seems could be related to the cartId being NULL (didn't check the code, not sure how it works)

here are a few shots with the stack trace that I was able to capture yesterday.
after reloading the page, everything worked OK.