What’s Trending in the Dev Community?

Heather Barr
BigCommerce Developer Blog
2 min readMay 5, 2021

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 customizing checkouts, troubleshooting Chocolatey errors, and installing custom apps outside.

📣 Announcements

  • New Localization Docs: Check out the new tutorial in our Developer Docs all about localizing areas of your Stencil theme.
  • Restructured App Manager in the Developer Portal: We’ve moved “Technical” to the second tab in place of “Details”. Review the changes in the Developer Changelog to learn more.
  • Cornerstone v5.4.0 is now available! This update included bug fixes and added support to existing features. Review all of the changes in the Developer Changelog.
  • BigCommerce for WordPress v4.10.0 is now available! The update includes bug fixes, added support for global customer login, and added styles for the Twenty Twenty One theme. See all the details in the Developers Changelog.

⭐ BigContributor

BIG Thanks to Topher DeRosia for developing tools to help others, and always being a resource for BC4WP agencies and developers in the BigCommerce Developer Community! Your knowledge and helpful attitude are a true benefit to the entire BC4WP ecosystem. You rock! 🤘! 🙌

🗣 Can’t Miss Conversations

Some of our favorite, trending conversations from the BigCommerce Developer Community.

  • This developer was running into Chocolatey errors when trying to work with the Stencil CLI. Take a look at their thread in our BigCommerce Developer Community to see how they resolved this.
  • Ali Tahir was looking for a way to provide an option to install their app outside of BigCommerce. If you’re developing an app and want to incorporate this behavior, check out this thread in the Community to see a tutorial and link to use.

🤝 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.

  • Andrew Hobson has upgraded their Cornerstone version and is troubleshooting a complex handlebars situation which uses {{cdn}} in addition to ‘concat’, ‘toLowerCase’ & ‘dashcase’. Share your best practice in their Developer Community thread. 😁

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