What’s Trending in the Dev Community

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. You’ll see our most popular and insightful conversations, along with questions that could use your expertise or helpful advice.

This week, the BigCommerce Developer Community discussed building custom checkouts with the BigCommerce Checkout SDK and our Server-to-Server APIs. Users are also experimenting with displaying elements in their themes differently, and retrieving additional blog information to show to customers.

Can’t Miss Conversations

• User agr1909 is building a headless iOS app for a BigCommerce store using the Server-to-Server Checkout API. They want to know if this puts their app in PCI scope, and if so, if there is a way to redirect customers to a BigCommerce hosted checkout. Read the discussion on Stackoverflow.
• User catokx is building a custom checkout using the Checkout JS SDK. They want to call some JavaScript before redirecting the customer to the order confirmation page and they’re having trouble using service.finalizeOrderIfNeeded() with a specific payment gateway. Read more about the issue on GitHub.

Share a Solution

• Steffan Carrington wants to display recent blog posts that are categorized under a specific tag on the storefront. Learn a strategy for doing this and join the conversation in the Community.
• User JJS wants to hide custom address fields and wants to know the best way to predict the name attribute on the input tag. Share a solution on StackOverflow.

Code Share

• Inayat Noormohmad wants to make his store’s phone number clickable for mobile users so they can easily be redirected to make the call. Read one method for doing this in the Community.