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

API Spec Files Available For Download

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New As of February 21, 2019: There is a new section in Cart and Checkout Overview that details common errors and how to solve for them. API specification files are downloadable. Specification files are found on each endpoint or in the...
API
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

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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

API Updates January 18, 2019

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Enhancement As of Jan 16th, 2019, you can include information about Product Options and Product Modifiers together in a Get All Products API Request. This will allow you to make fewer API calls to understand the full state of a product...
API
Maintenance
Enhancement

Recent Cornerstone Breaking Changes

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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

API Updates January 11th 2019

by BigCommerce
Enhancement Taxes are now returned in more detail in the Storefront Checkout API. taxTotal is the total amount of all taxes in the checkout. The taxes object array, returns the name of the tax and the amount. Bug Fixes For V3 Catalog...
API
Bug Fix
Maintenance
Enhancement

Partner Sandboxes moving to Sitewide HTTPS

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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...
Announcement
Enhancement

Cornerstone 3.0.0 Release

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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
Warning