What’s Trending in the Dev Community?
Welcome to a recap of what’s trending in the BigCommerce Developer Community. Every other week, we’ll take a look at the discussions happening in our dev spaces. You’ll see our most popular and insightful conversations, along with questions that could use your expertise or helpful advice.
In the BigCommerce Developer Community, we’re seeing conversations about headless implementations, headless customizations, and — you guessed it — all things headless! Aside from the increased conversations about going headless, we also saw updates to the GraphQL API, more documentation around checkout options, and making theme customizations via storefront APIs/tools.
📣 Announcements
- GraphQL Storefront API can now be used to power Stencil theme context, with Front Matter. Read all of the details of this update in the Developer Changelog.
- New Developer Docs: If you’re considering alternative checkout options, this Checkout Customizability article is a must-read! To learn more about the options available, visit the link above.
- New Developer Docs: Email Template code examples are now available via the Dev Center to provide examples of how to customize the recently updated Transactional Email templates. Visit our Developer Docs to learn more.
⭐ BigContributor
BIG Thanks to Matt Coy for being an amazing team player in the Developer Slack, in BigCommerce related Stack Overflow posts, and in our Help Center. You always provide code samples, best practices, and alternative options if any are available. We’re so glad to have you with us in all of our spaces! 🎉 💙
🗣 Can’t Miss Conversations
Some of our favorite, trending conversations from the BigCommerce Developer Community.
- Osama and his team utilize WordPress for their headless solution on the BigCommerce platform and experienced a hiccup with the webhooks during the automatic product sync. In their conversation, we were informed of some exciting news from the ModernTribe team about this that you don’t want to miss if you use BC4WP! Check out their thread in the BigCommerceDevs Slack to get the scoop.
- Panu is venturing into the headless world with a Nuxt.js + BigCommerce solution (Vue alternative of Next.js) and is looking for help, specifically with understanding how price list functionality works in a headless implementation. Check out Panu’s thread in the #headless channel of the BigCommerceDevs Slack to see more about it!!
🤝 Share a Solution
The latest Community questions and conversations that need a response. Provide a helping hand to your fellow e-commerce developers and share your ideas and solutions with the group.
- Asma is looking to get the variant ID by the option that is selected by a user, only using resources available on the storefront. If you’ve done something similar or have a creative idea to share with Asma, join our conversation in the BigCommerce Developers Community group! 😁
