Dev Center Updates

API Updates June 12, 2019

by BigCommerce
Developer Blog Improve Web Font Performance in Stencil Themes with Font-display Let’s Talk About CORS Maintenance As of June 12th 2019: Remove the documentation related to the storecredit include on the beta V3 Customers API. This part...
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Bug Fix
Developer Blog
Warning

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...
Announcement
Warning
Stencil

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...
Stencil
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...
Stencil
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...
API
Stencil

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
Stencil

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Announcement Sunset Theme Editor & Store Design Release The Stencil Theme Editor tool has sunset and has been replaced by the new default tool called Store Design.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...
Announcement
API
Cornerstone
Stencil

Optimized One Page Checkout Moving to React

by BigCommerce
In March 2019, BigCommerce will be making changes to Optimized One Page Checkout. To improve rendering and loading performance, we will be updating the underlying JavaScript framework from Angular to React. This update will lay the...
Warning

Handling Customer Sign Out from Checkout

by BigCommerce
Note: This only applies if you have Persistent Cart enabled and are using a custom checkout built with the Checkout JS SDK. Persistent cart is now in the process of rolling out to BigCommerce stores. With this new feature, when a...
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