BigCommerce for Beginners: Guide and INSTALLATION

Wanting to try BigCommerce?

BigCommerce is a scalable ecommerce platform which allows you to create an online store.

They allow you a generous 15 days free trial for you to try out now. 😋

Are you ready? 🚀

Steps for installation

1. Clone from git — git clone https://github.com/bigcommerce/cornerstone.git
2. When clone is completed, direct to cornerstone folder
3. In gitbash run — npm install -g bigcommerce/stencil-cli
4. In gitbash run — npm install
5. Setting up API
6. Login or create account in BigCommerce
7. From the navigation go to Advanced Setting → API Accounts → Create API Account
8. In gitbash run — stencil init
9. Enter the site URL. Which is the URL of the the site created through bigcommerce.com
10. Enter Client ID and Auth token
11. In gitbash run — stencil start

The styles .scss can be found under assets → scss, where they are broken into components.

For changing templates/layouts navigate to templates

Adding new Component to template

Let’s take the footer section as an example.

Creating the component

Add a new .html file under the component category

Adding the component to code

Now Lets see our footer section 🥁

Tada …