Dev Center Updates

Widgets API is Now Available

by BigCommerce
Announcement As of March 11, 2019 the Widgets API is available. Use Widgets to create custom, reusable content blocks without needed the heavy lifting of changing the template files and css. See our BigCommerce Developer Blog post on...
API
Announcement
Enhancement

Optimized One Page Checkout Moving to React

by BigCommerce
In March 2019, BigCommerce will be making changes to Optimized One Page Checkout. To improve rendering and loading performance, we will be updating the underlying JavaScript framework from Angular to React. This update will lay the...
Warning

Handling Customer Sign Out from Checkout

by BigCommerce
Note: This only applies if you have Persistent Cart enabled and are using a custom checkout built with the Checkout JS SDK. Persistent cart is now in the process of rolling out to BigCommerce stores. With this new feature, when a...
Warning

Recent Cornerstone Breaking Changes

by BigCommerce
Due to a breaking change made in the release of Cornerstone 3.0, you can no longer load Cart resource on non-cart pages in the Cornerstone theme PR #1401. While the theme itself doesn't depend on this resource on non-cart pages, this...
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Cornerstone

Partner Sandboxes moving to Sitewide HTTPS

by BigCommerce
In the effort to make BigCommerce one of the safest (and fastest!) places to run your business, and in alignment with best practices, we're beginning the journey of moving our platform to be exclusively served via HTTPS. As a first step...
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Enhancement

Cornerstone 3.0.0 Release

by BigCommerce
Enhancements Added defer tag to addThis and defered execution of related script PR #1406 Remove unnecessary API call to get cookie notification status PR #1380 Cart switch from quote item hash to id which is immutable PR #1387 Remove...
Cornerstone
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Server to Server Checkout API Out of Beta

by BigCommerce
The Server to Server Checkout API is now out of Beta! The Checkout API allows you to add all the information needed to turn a cart into an order.
API
Announcement

Now in Beta: A New, Redesigned Developer Center

by BigCommerce
Announcement
Enhancement
API
Stencil
We are excited to announce the beta launch of the Dev Center, a new version of our developer documentation. This new experience combines API (https://developer.bigcommerce.com/api/) and Theme documentation (https://stencil.bigcommerce...

BigCommerce Checkout SDK

by BigCommerce
The Checkout JS SDK is a wrapper for the BigCommerce Storefront Checkout API. It allows for a developer to create a custom checkout experience to move a customer through the checkout process. The SDK handles all the ‘heavy-lifting’ such...
API
Announcement