Dev Center Updates

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

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

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

Storefront Data Hooks & Theme Updates for March 4, 2021

by BigCommerce
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
Theme
Enhancement
Announcement
Developer Blog

API Updates for January 14, 2021

by BigCommerce
API It is now possible to programmatically configure your store's Product Filtering feature, also known as faceted search, using the Search Filters endpoint of the Settings API . You can now use Contextual Filters to configure the...
API
Announcement
Enhancement
Developer Blog