GraphQL Storefront API Updates - May 5th

by BigCommerce
New Features You may now request the product description as plain text (with HTML tags stripped) using the new plainTextDescription field. To encourage not over-fetching, and to support cases where you want to show only a small preview...
Storefront API
Enhancement

GraphQL Storefront API Updates - Product Warranty

by BigCommerce
Enhancements You may now request the warranty field on the Product node. As the product warranty may be quite large, requesting it will raise the complexity score of your query slightly higher than other fields.
Enhancement
Storefront API

Extend the BigCommerce Page Builder with custom Widgets!

by BigCommerce
Beginning April 8, BigCommerce stores will have improved content management capabilities in the new Page Builder feature. This new capability is being slowly rolled out, starting with new BigCommerce stores. BigCommerce provides several...
Announcement
Enhancement

Chrome's SameSite changes have been temporarily reverted by Google

by BigCommerce
In a previous changelog entry, we warned you about changes to Chrome's handling of cookies via the new SameSite attribute, which affects the behavior of cookies in iframes, and thus affects the loading of BigCommerce apps. Google has...
Announcement
Warning

GraphQL Storefront API Updates - April 3, 2020

by BigCommerce
Bugs Fixed An issue where product description and relatedProducts would sometimes return null when the product was looked up via a route has been fixed. New Features The GraphQL Storefront API now supports running requests in the...
Announcement
Enhancement
Storefront API

New control_panel_base_url property on Store Information API

by BigCommerce
A new controlpanelbase_url property has been added to the Store Information API. This will always return the appropriate URL for the store's control panel, so you should use it for any instance where you need to link back to the control...
Enhancement
API
Announcement

Stencil-CLI 2.0.0 Release

by BigCommerce
The local Theme Editor has been removed, as it is no longer representative of the production experience. To test theme settings, we recommend pushing your theme up to a store and using the real editor. Add-to-cart issues when developing...
Stencil
Announcement
Developer Blog

PHPSESSID cookie will be removed from storefronts on April 9, 2020

by BigCommerce
On April 9, 2020, the PHPSESSID cookie will no longer be set by BigCommerce on the BigCommerce storefront or control panel.
Warning
Announcement

Certain V2 API DELETE endpoints are being removed on May 10

by BigCommerce
On May 10, the following endpoints will be removed from the V2 API: DELETE /v2/products DELETE /v2/option_sets (sometimes aliased as /v2/optionsets) DELETE /v2/customers This change ONLY affects the "collection delete" capability which...
Warning
Announcement
API