Dev Center Updates

Removing support for Node 6 in stencil-cli

by BigCommerce
Due to Node 6's End of Life, we've removed support for it in stencil-cli from version 1.16.0 and we'll be working on phasing it out of other Stencil-related projects. As of this writing, the only supported version of Node for use with...
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Warning
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Change to image resizing behavior

by BigCommerce
Starting May 30, images requested via the {{getImage}} helper will always be returned at the requested size, even if the original image has lower pixel dimensions than the requested size - it will be upsized in this case. We recommend...
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Announcement

Change to Google Fonts to improve performance

by BigCommerce
Starting May 29, the {{getFontsCollection}} Handlebars helper in Stencil themes will use Google Fonts' newly released support for font-display. The default behavior of this helper has been changed to return a Google Fonts URL with...
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Enhancement

API and Theme Documentation Updates

by BigCommerce
API Updated Price Lists API to show that doing more than one bulk update at a time will return a 429 error. Order quantity maximum and minimum allowed return a 409 error instead of a 500 error. Updated list of available APIs was updated...
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Smart Buttons now available for PayPal Express Checkout

by BigCommerce
Smart Buttons are now available on store checkouts using PayPal Express Checkout (as well as PayPal powered by Braintree). Smart Buttons can also be made customizable via the Store Design tool with some modification to your theme's...
Enhancement
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Store Design & V3 Customers API

by BigCommerce
Announcement Sunset Theme Editor & Store Design Release The Stencil Theme Editor tool has sunset and has been replaced by the new default tool called Store Design. For more information on the new Store Design tool and experience, see...
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API
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API Updates January 18, 2019

by BigCommerce
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

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

API Documentation Updates

by BigCommerce
Bug Fixes When a product had a required text option, adding to the cart with the Storefront API returned a 500 error. Enhancement A product_id query parameter was added to the Get All Variants endpoint. This will help with the amount of...
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Maintenance
Bug Fix