Moving to Sitemap Indexes

by BigCommerce
Over the course of October, storefronts will be moving to return a Sitemap Index by default when navigating to/xmlsitemap.php, the default sitemap route for storefronts. There will be separate sitemaps for different types of pages such as
Announcement
Stencil
Enhancement

GraphQL Storefront API can now be used to power Stencil theme context

by BigCommerce
It is now possible to augment the data available in the theme context through the use of GraphQL queries described directly in the Front Matter of template files. Using this capability, you can fetch data a little bit more flexibly to build
Stencil
Storefront API
Announcement
Enhancement

Required Stencil-CLI version set to 3.5.0

by BigCommerce
A bug affecting users of stencil-CLI has been fixed as of CLI version 3.5.0. As this bug was resulting in CLI requests incorrectly redirecting which resulted in a degradation of the local development experience, we have bumped the required
Stencil
Announcement
Warning

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

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

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

GraphQL Login Mutation now returns entire Customer object

by BigCommerce
The GraphQL Storefront API’s Login Mutation now supports fetching all of the details of the customer account after a successful login. Consider this query: mutation Login($email: String!, $pass: String!) { login(email: $email, password:
Storefront API
Enhancement

API Announcement for April 1, 2021

by BigCommerce
API Added business-to-business functionality to the BigCommerce platform with the B2B Edition of BigCommerce Developer Blog My Experience at DeveloperWeek 2021 Introducing BigCommerce Transactional Email Templates MACHathon 2021: Building
Announcement
API
Developer Blog
Stencil
Enhancement

UPC, MPN, and GTIN now available in Storefront GraphQL API

by BigCommerce
The UPC, MPN, and GTIN fields are now available on both product and variant nodes in the GraphQL Storefront API
Storefront API
Enhancement
API
GraphQL