What’s Trending in the Dev Community?

Heather Barr
BigCommerce Developer Blog
2 min readJul 20, 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 storefront customizations for brand recognition, added support for GraphQL and localization, as well as new community member video and open source contributions.

📣 Announcements

  • BigCommerce Theme Updates: The latest updates include localization support for widgets and theme variations, and added support for types, queries, mutations, and parameters via the GraphQL API reference. See more details about this update in the Developer Changelog.
  • BigCommerce for WordPress V4.14.0 is now available: This release includes several fixes to previously reported issues! See them all here in the Developer Changelog.
  • Cornerstone V5.7.1 is now available: In this release, we’ve updated language files for pt and pt-BR locales. See all the details on this release in the Developer Changelog.

⭐ BigContributor

BIG Thanks to Tom Robertshaw, again! Thank you for making this video to demo using the BigWidget utility You rock! 🤘

🗣 Can’t Miss Conversations

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

  • Tom, Mo, and the team from Space48 have released a new quick plug for a BigCommerce API client for JS (with TypeScript support). Check out the discussion in the BigCommerceDevs Slack Community or the Github Repo to see their open-source client!
  • Edin Ćeman was looking for a way to add their supported store brands in their navigation. Check out their thread in the BigCommerceDevs Slack Community to see the suggested solution, or if you’d like to share your own method for this!

🤝 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.

  • A new developer on StackOverflow, DSSA, is looking for some advice on creating a persistent cart across devices while using BigCommerce with Klaviyo. Are you currently using this integration? If so, we invite you to share your ideas with DSSA in their StackOverflow thread!! 😄

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