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 creating custom solutions for handling specific catalog and product variant use cases, GraphQL support for front matter, and widget HTML available via GraphQL.
📣 Announcements
- BigCommerce Theme Updates: This includes GraphQL support in Front Matter for Stencil Themes and localization to the control panel, system messages, and other options outside your theme. See more details about this update in the Developer Changelog.
- Cornerstone V5.7.0 is now available: With this new version of Cornerstone, you’ll find added translations for Consent Manager & CEV language files implemented into Cornerstone. Read more about this release in the Developer Changelog.
- Rendered Widget HTML now available in GraphQL Storefront API: You can find supporting docs and an example query in the Developer Changelog.
- New Dev Blog — Beat the Heat: Best Practices for Hotfixes by Rachael Thompson. Check it out in the BigCommerce Developer Blog.
⭐ BigContributor
BIG Thanks to Madeline Graham for always speaking up to help others in the Developer Slack Workspace, sharing your BC4WP knowledge by creating blogs, submitting GitHub issues for our teams to review, and being an overall wonderful presence in the community. Thanks for all that you do! 🤘
Find Madeline’s blog here: https://madeline-graham.com/
🗣 Can’t Miss Conversations
Some of our favorite, trending conversations from the BigCommerce Developer Community.
- Jacob Lett was looking for a custom solution that could support their variant heavy products as they ran into a limit. Check out the discussion in the Developer Community or on the BigCommerce Subreddit to see the conversation or jump in!
- Niyaz T was looking for a workaround to adding a plus sign in a category name via API to support their “Galaxy Tab S7+” category. Check out their thread in the Developer Community to see a possible workaround.
🤝 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.
- Jasvinder Singh is looking for a creative way to display a single product option that contains multiple selections or check boxes for other products. There are many ways to accomplish this, but if you’d like to share your ideas with Jasvinder, jump into the conversation in the BigCommerce Developers Community with us! 😄
