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 previewing widgets locally with the Stencil CLI, working with handlebars helpers for conditional logic, and maintaining sessions with app development.
📣 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.
- Now Available: Published widgets appear during local development with Stencil-CLI. See more details about this update in the Developer Changelog.
- BigCommerce for WordPress V4.15.0 is now available: This release adds support for partial product syncs, resolves the admin 404 error on product pages, and more! See all of the updates here in the Developer Changelog.
- New API: The Product Sort Order API is now generally available! You can find the API Reference Docs in the Dev Center.
- New DevBlog: “The Practitioner’s Guide to BigCommerce Webhooks” by Tom Robertshaw. Find the article in the BigCommerce Developers Blog.
⭐ BigContributor
BIG Thanks to Topher DeRosia! Your recent contributions and helpful hand to the BigCommerce and ModernTribe teams are very much appreciated as we’ve been working on improving analytics, checkout, and WordPress v5.8 compatibility with the BC4WP plugin! You rock! 🤩
🗣 Can’t Miss Conversations
Some of our favorite, trending conversations from the BigCommerce Developer Community.
- A few Space 48 developers just open-sourced a BigCommerce API client for JS, with typescript support for the developer community. Check out the discussion in the BigCommerceDevs Slack Community or visit their Github Repo to see their open-source client!
- After logging into their React.js + Laravel app, Laure kept losing their original session as a new session was being created for each request. Check out their StackOverflow thread to see how Laure solved 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.
- When deciding how to optimize catalog images, what are some of your go-to options? Which 3rd party solution is your favorite or least favorite? Join us in the BigCommerce subreddit, as we’re seeking some advice on optimizing over 5k products. Share your thoughts with us here! 😁
