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

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

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

Changes to Chrome’s SameSite cookie policies that may affect BigCommerce apps

by BigCommerce
Beginning in February, the way Google Chrome handles cross-site cookies is changing to prevent cookies without an explicit SameSite policy from loading in cross-origin requests. More details on Chrome’s upcoming changes are available on...
Warning
Announcement

GraphQL Storefront API Updates - December 11th, 2019

by BigCommerce
We're excited to announce several improvements to the GraphQL Storefront API! Bugs Fixed An issue which prevented looking up products on the product node via parent SKU code when the product had variants was fixed. Enhancements The...
Storefront API
Announcement
Enhancement

API and Theme updates for Dec 6, 2019

by BigCommerce
Developer Survey BigCommerce is seeking feedback from its external devs. Give us your feedback! API Added example request body for Storefront Token API POST Added id to Category API filter params Developer Blog Blazing Speed Without...
Developer Blog
API
Storefront API