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

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

Required Stencil-CLI version set to 3.5.0

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

Published Widgets now appear during local development with Stencil-CLI

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

GraphQL Storefront API now supports sorting products within categories

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

GraphQL Login Mutation now returns entire Customer object

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:

API Announcement for April 1, 2021

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

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

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

API Announcement for March 4, 2021

On April 30, 2021, the Coupon API will limit the characters allowed in a coupon name. An error will result if any special characters other than the following are used in the Coupon code field: Alphanumeric values White spaces Underscores (

Storefront Data Hooks & Theme Updates for March 4, 2021

Storefront Hooks 1.0.1 Initial public release in support of https://nextjs.org/commerce 1.1.0 Fix useUpdateItem Fix typo in storefront-data-hooks repo Add missing types to the Cart body Resolves#22 Login SSO Accept options in the useLogin