What’s Trending in the Dev Community

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. You’ll see our most popular and insightful conversations, along with questions that could use your expertise or helpful advice.

This week, the BigCommerce Developer Community discussed troubleshooting issues with Stencil dependencies and how to add new packages. Folks also discussed using the Widgets API and streamlining Catalog API calls.

Can’t Miss Conversations

• AfterPay needs to access Handlebars available in their Stencil theme within the Widgets API template. To learn more about why the page scope isn’t available within a Widget and to read about some possible workarounds, head to the Community.
• DanScan is building a tool to manage inventory between his warehouse and BigCommerce store. The first step is pulling his entire product catalog via API, then the variants. He is trying to streamline this process. Find out how he can reduce the number of calls he makes and share your process on StackOverflow.

Share a Solution

• Tyler Bean can successfully apply custom page templates he’s created in Stencil to his live store, but is unable to preview the custom template when viewing his store locally. View the solution on StackOverflow.
• Koja koja is writing a single-click app with Koa.js. They want their app to be able to validate webhook payloads. Find out more about best practices for doing this in the Community.

Code Share

• Joel Blankers is having an issue on his store where product images aren’t appearing in Internet Explorer 11 only. To learn how to add more error logging to a Node module and how Joel finally solved the problem, visit the Community.