Dev Center Updates

Developer Updates for August 5, 2021

by BigCommerce
Theme Updated the product attributes table in the front matter reference to include the maximum number of reviews available per page. If a product has over 250 reviews, you can fetch the rest using the GraphQL Storefront API. Storefronts
API
Announcement
Developer Blog
Theme

Published Widgets now appear during local development with Stencil-CLI

by BigCommerce
As of stencil-cli version 3.4.0, any published Widgets on the storefront will appear while rendering the storefront locally with the CLI. This will allow you to have a more realistic preview of what theme changes will look like in
Stencil
Enhancement
Announcement

API Updates for July 22, 2021

by BigCommerce
Payments Added Mollie to the list of supported gateways for stored cards. API The Product Sort Order API is now generally available.
API
Announcement

API and Theme Updates for July 15, 2021

by BigCommerce
Theme Added support for Localizing Variation Descriptions enabling you to customize the display language of your theme. API The Widgets API now supports Localizing Widget Template Settings. GraphQL API Reference documentation now includes a
API
Announcement
Maintenance
Theme
Developer Blog

Theme Updates for July 1, 2021

by BigCommerce
Theme Added ability to embed a GraphQL query in the front matter of a Stencil theme. See GraphQL attributes for examples and a complete list of available variables. Localization- Added ability to localize the control panel, system messages,
Theme
Stencil
Developer Blog
Maintenance

Rendered Widget HTML now available in GraphQL Storefront API

by BigCommerce
You may now fetch the rendered HTML of widgets created via Widgets API or Page Builder. To get the content, you’ll need to provide a page type, and the ID for the page (if necessary). In the response, you’ll get a list of all the regions on
API
Announcement
Storefront API

API Update and Announcement for June 4, 2021

by BigCommerce
API Corrected pagination meta for the Channel Listings endpoint. Requests no longer return a page number in the pagination response.
API
Announcement

API Update and Announcement for June 3, 2021

by BigCommerce
API Added the Product Sort Order API(Open Beta) which allows you to effectively manage the sort order of products displayed on any given category page. Developer Blog Inclusive And Accessible Omnichannel Strategies with JAMstack
API
Announcement
Developer Blog

GraphQL Storefront API now supports sorting products within categories

by BigCommerce
The GraphQL Storefront API’s now supports sorting the products on a Category node, using the sortBy parameter. This will match the equivalent sorting behaviors on the BigCommerce Storefront (Stencil). Consider this query: query
Storefront API
Enhancement