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.

Discussion in the BigCommerce Developers Community this week revolved around retrieving information from a store and then doing something based on that condition, using the Checkout JS SDK, and creating a shortcut to optimize SEO. Jump in below to learn how folks are solving problems and weigh in with solutions of your own.

Can’t Miss Conversations

• BigCommerce will soon deprecate Legacy Checkouts. View our post about it in the Community to learn about this and future changes.
• ArchangelGabriel is trying to understand why he occasionally doesn’t get any customer data back when using the Checkout JS SDK signInCustomer function. Read what our engineers have to say and continue the conversation on GitHub.

Code Share

• A Smith wants to dynamically generate SEO meta descriptions pulled from the description of his products via the storefront. He’d like to do this without entering any information in the Control Panel. Check out a solution and share your own here.
• A Hayes wants to hide prices and only show them to customers logged in to a certain group. Share your code in the thread here.

Share a Solution

• Gord Currie is trying to find a clever way to gather the Store Owner’s location to be able to charge them a different tax rate depending on where they are. Read a potential solution and share your thoughts in the Community here.