Dev Center Updates

Required stencil-cli version is now 2.0.0

by BigCommerce
As of August 11, 2020, the required stencil-CLI version for local development is now 2.0.0. To update to the latest version of stencil-cli, simply run npm install -g @bigcommerce/stencil-cli. We recommend using the latest Node 10.x...
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Per-Device Image Resizing based on user agent has been disabled; use srcset

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As of August 11, 2020, the BigCommerce CDN will no longer downscale the resolution of images when it detects that an end user is shopping from a mobile device with a small screen. In order to make sure that file size & quality is...
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Cart Suggestions removed from Stencil context Cart model

by BigCommerce
As of June 16, the ability to request a list of suggested products relevant to the user's current shopping cart has been removed. If this information is requested using Front Matter or a stencil-utils call, it will not be returned. This...
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API & Theme Updates for May 7, 2020

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API New Themes configuration endpoints now available Clarified documentation to note store/cart/abandoned will fire whether or not a store has the Abandoned Cart Saver feature enabled. GET Customers V3 endpoint includes new sort...
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API and Theme Updates, April 16, 2020

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API Updated Payments API sample app diagram Adyen removed from list of providers compatible with Payments API BigCommerce for Wordpress New article Multi-Channel Capabilities with Wordpress Theme %%GLOBALTrackingLink_List%% variable...
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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...
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API and Theme Updates for April 2, 2020

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API GraphQL API documentation expanded to include more information on making Customer Impersonation Token authenticated requests and querying the API from an external system store/shipment/created Webhook now sends orderID as an integer...
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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...
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API and Theme Updates for March 20, 2020

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API Royal Mail is no longer a supported carrier for creating Order Shipments Tax Classes API now returns the default tax class Theme Theme Editor was deprecated in Stencil CLI versions 1.23.1 and later Developer Blog How to Write...
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