ENGCOM-7752: Remove over complicated setup for closing minicart dropdown #28906

 - Merge Pull Request #28906 from lumnn/magento2:feature-remove-close-sidebar
 - Merged commits:
   1. 1cb5685

Author: magento-engcom-team

app/code/Magento/Checkout/view/frontend/web/js/view/minicart.js

@@ -123,20 +123,6 @@ define([
             $('[data-block="minicart"]').find('[data-role="dropdownDialog"]').dropdownDialog('close');
         },
 
-        /**
-         * @return {Boolean}
-         */
-        closeSidebar: function () {
-            var minicart = $('[data-block="minicart"]');
-
-            minicart.on('click', '[data-action="close"]', function (event) {
-                event.stopPropagation();
-                minicart.find('[data-role="dropdownDialog"]').dropdownDialog('close');
-            });
-
-            return true;
-        },
-
         /**
          * @param {String} productType
          * @return {*|String}

app/code/Magento/Checkout/view/frontend/web/template/minicart/content.html

@@ -21,7 +21,12 @@
             id="btn-minicart-close"
             class="action close"
             data-action="close"
-            data-bind="attr: { title: $t('Close') }">
+            data-bind="
+                attr: {
+                    title: $t('Close')
+                },
+                click: closeMinicart()
+            ">
         <span translate="'Close'"/>
     </button>
 
@@ -74,7 +79,6 @@
 
     <ifnot args="getCartParam('summary_count')">
         <strong class="subtitle empty"
-                data-bind="visible: closeSidebar()"
                 translate="'You have no items in your shopping cart.'"
         />
         <if args="getCartParam('cart_empty_message')">