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 using the Storefront Cart API, editing a store’s theme.scss file, and applying JavaScript to a product category page. We also saw a request for info about an error seen when using the Stencil CLI.

Can’t Miss Conversations

• Dmitry Zhukovsky is using the Storefront Cart API to fetch a cart, but has only received 500 errors after verifying their cart exists. Read more about returning cart information using this API in the Community.
• Kris Oakes commented out some of the code in theme.scss while editing their Stencil theme, and now receives bundling errors. We discover why editing this file can have a dramatic impact on your theme in the Community.
• Jordan Santaga is learning about the Storefront Cart API and found that using a GET request from an external site fails. Read more about why this fails in the Community.
• Nick Eaton was having trouble applying JavaScript to a product category page using the `span` tag. Read more about how this can be accomplished in the Community.

Share a Solution

• Brandon Pfeiffer is seeing an error in the Stencil CLI `cannot read property ‘fn’ of null` and can’t find the cause. Join the conversation and share your solution in the Community.

Code Share

• Troy Wolf created a shortcut for accessing the control panel from a product page to edit that product, and shared it with the Community! You can see it in action and find more info in the Community.