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 storing access tokens for app development with Laravel, using custom templates to give individuality to products, and using the script manager to track individual Facebook Pixel events for specific pages.

📣 Announcements

• Added API Support: The GraphQL Login Mutation now returns the entire Customer object! Now you can fetch all of the details of the customer account after a successful login. To find all the details, check out the Developer Changelog.
• Added API Support: You can now sort your products within categories using the sortBy parameter in GraphQL Storefront API requests. Read more about this in the Developer Changelog.
• Cornerstone V5.5.0 is now available! This release includes updated styles for compliance requirements, added payment banner settings, fixed focus trap on all modals and more! You can find all of the other updates about this release in the Developer Changelog.

⭐ BigContributor

• BIG Thanks to Tanner Brodhagen for being a helping hand to merchants and developers in the BigCommerce Community. We see you stepping into the shoes of others to provide code samples, resources and always welcoming dialogue when helping members solve their problems. You rock🤘

🗣 Can’t Miss Conversations

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

• Nathan Saritschniy was looking to dynamically inject components in their template using the concat handlebars helper but became blocked when trying to modify the component injection logic. Take a look at the thread in the BigCommerce Developer Community to see the work-around that Nathan and a few partners came up with!
• While building an app with Laravel, User3326941 creatively solved the problem of safely storing app data for future API requests. Check out their thread in StackOverflow to see how they did it!

🤝 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 Faruk Gonullu is new to app development with Laravel and is looking for some help in accessing their store_hash & access_token to fetch data from BigCommerce! Visit their thread in StackOverflow here to share your best practice! 😁