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 working with SSO & guest checkout on headless storefronts, as well as manipulating the view of product data & blogs with queries, filters and methods. We also have so many announcements this week!
📣 Announcements
- Community Feedback: Partners & Devs, We are doing a survey (10 quick questions). We’d love your help to improve the developer community experience. If you participate, you can win free swag! Complete the survey here.
- Cornerstone V6.0 is now available: See more details about this update in the Developer Changelog.
- BigCommerce for WordPress V4.16.0 is now available: This release includes many fixes for previously reported issues! See all of the updates here in the Developer Changelog.
- Docs Update: Updated the product attributes table in the front matter reference to include the maximum number of reviews available per page. See more about this update in the Front Matter Reference Docs.
- New Headless Commerce Guide: To help enable developers who wish to implement a custom headless storefront powered by a BigCommerce backend. Find the guide in the DevCenter.
- New Blog: “When is Headless the Right Choice?” by Rachael Thompson. Read more in the BigCommerce Developer Blog.
- New App: We’ve released a step-by-step tutorial on how to build and embed a Next.js sample app using Node.js, Next.js, and BigDesign. Check out the tutorial in the DevCenter.
⭐ BigContributor
BIG Thanks to Max Karlsson! Not only can we always count on you to provide honest and impactful feedback to our teams here at BigCommerce, but our community can always count on you to reach out and help or challenge ideas to promote creativity. Thank you for all that you do, and we’re extremely glad to have you with us! 🙏
🗣 Can’t Miss Conversations
Some of our favorite, trending conversations from the BigCommerce Developer Community.
- Max Karlsson and MagicSpon were discussing workarounds and options for utilizing SSO for guest checkout on headless implementations. Check out the discussion in the Headless channel of the BigCommerceDevs Slack Community!
- If you’re using the bigcommerce-api-js npm package from Space48 and need to paginate products, this is a must-see thread. Check out the discussion between Hob, Mo & Fred in the BigCommerceDevs Slack Community to see the best practices for pagination!
🤝 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.
- Kiefer needs to sort and filter the native BigCommerce blog posts and is looking for advice from other devs who may have some creative ideas on accomplishing this. Have you utilized or manipulated the native blog functionality with BC? If so, we invite you to share your thoughts with us here! 😁
