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 detecting unsuccessful coupon codes at checkout, collecting EU VAT on product pages in addition to BigCommerce for WordPress plugin updates from the Modern Tribe + BigCommerce!
📣 Announcements
- Community Feedback: Partners & Devs, there’s less than a week to participate in our community survey! We’ve received so many responses and are so excited by all of the suggestions and feedback we’ve read so far! If you haven’t yet, you can complete the survey here. Plus, participating enters you into our free swag giveaway! 😉
- New Developer Blog: “GraphQL Authentication on BigCommerce” by Rachael Thompson. In this blog, Rachael guides you from start to finish on authenticating with GraphQL. The perfect-storm use cases for this solution are; impersonating a user, having finer control of returned data, or leveraging customer data while developing custom UIs. Find the full story here!New Blog: “When is Headless the Right Choice?” by Rachael Thompson. Read more in the BigCommerce Developer Blog.
⭐ BigContributor
BIG Thanks toDave Stockley, aka magicspon, for being a key member in our developer community, and an open source contributor! It’s incredible seeing you helping other developers with their headless storefronts, in addition to your honest feedback with us and the community. Thank you for your contributions to the world of open source and for the impact you make in our community. 💙
🗣 Can’t Miss Conversations
Some of our favorite, trending conversations from the BigCommerce Developer Community.
- Ben has an interesting task at hand! They’re looking to detect and collect unsuccessful coupon codes that their customers are attempting in checkout. If you’re interested in this for your store or want to collaborate with Ben on reaching this goal — Check out their thread and join our discussion in the BigCommerce Developers Community!
- This past week we held an AMA (Ask Me Anything) about the BigCommerce for WordPress plugin, hosted by ModernTribe Sr. Product Owner, Paul Yuen, and BigCommerce Product Marketing Manager, Rachael Thompson. Check out the BigCommerceDevs Slack Community (#ama-whats-the-word_08–24–2021 channel) to see what our BC4WP community members were curious about, and the feedback from our teams!
🤝 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.
- Tom is looking to alter the Add to Cart functionality for bundled products in response to collecting and remitting EU VAT costs. Have you manipulated the native Add to Cart functionality with BC or are you interested in Tom’s idea? If so, we invite you to share your thoughts with us here! 😁
