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 integrating with third-party gift certificate services, adding custom functionality to Next.js headless storefronts, and validating webhooks.
📣 Announcements
- Upcoming Beta Opportunity: The beta will allow developers to customize the order confirmation page that gets displayed after the shopper completes the checkout. Submit your interest here.
- New API: The Get Stored Instruments endpoint is now in Beta and lists all available stored instruments for a customer. Learn more in the Developer Changelog.
- New API: The Tax Provider API which allows third-party tax providers to integrate tax solutions into BigCommerce. Review the changes in the Developer Changelog and learn more on the Developer Blog.
- New Functionality: In collaboration with BundleB2B, business-to-business functionality has been added to the BigCommerce platform with the B2B Edition of BigCommerce. All resources are available in the links above, in addition to the B2B V2 Open API. Read more about this in the Developer Changelog.
- GraphQL Update: Product and product set widgets now respect user-selected currency via storefront_api_query. Review the changes in the Developer Changelog.
- Cornerstone v5.3.0: Tons of updates released to the Cornerstone theme including fixing IE11 specific bugs, UI fixes and added error messaging for failed faceted search. See all the details in the Developers Changelog.
⭐ BigContributor
BIG Thanks to Mark Wexler for always being a positive and resourceful presence in the BigCommerce Developer Community! Your questions and solutions are so detailed and helpful to all other devs in the space. Thank you for all that you do! 🤘
🗣 Can’t Miss Conversations
Some of our favorite, trending conversations from the BigCommerce Developer Community.
- Matthias Wehnert is looking to implement order cancelation functionality on their Next.js headless storefront. Thanks to the suggestion from www depot, they were able to find a solution using the order status and order refund endpoints. Take a look at the thread in our BigCommerce Developer Community!
- Are you looking for a solution for managing gift certificates with an external system? If so, check out this thread in the Community to see some potential use cases and the suggested solution!
🤝 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.
- Kiruba Karan is looking for a way to receive webhook tokens back from webhook requests for validation. Do you have a preferred method of accomplishing webhook validation? Share your best practice in the Developer Community thread!😁
