Upcoming changes to HTTP header casing

by BigCommerce
Infrastructural changes to BigCommerce over the next 2 weeks may result in some HTTP headers being returned as lowercase which previously had a mixture of uppercase and lowercase characters. For example, HTTP header names such as
API
Warning

API Updates for December 2, 2021

by BigCommerce
API The Add to Cart URLs example now uses promises to demonstrate using JavaScript to make serial requests to a single endpoint. The Add Consignments to Checkout endpoint now reflects limits to the number of line items a consignment can
Storefront API
Bug Fix
Enhancement
Announcement

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

Theme Updates for July 1, 2021

by BigCommerce
Theme Added ability to embed a GraphQL query in the front matter of a Stencil theme. See GraphQL attributes for examples and a complete list of available variables. Localization- Added ability to localize the control panel, system messages,
Theme
Stencil
Developer Blog
Maintenance

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