Dev Center Updates

API Updates for April 4, 2024

2024-04-04T17:58:49.392Z

API

Merchants can now select which regions they want to use an automatic tax provider. To learn more about the new merchant flow, see configuring tax providers in the Tax Provider API doc.

Stencil

Updated stencil category shop_by_price.yml description to include new functionality.

Bug Fix

Removed duplicate listing of “Store Address” in Store information updated events.

API Updates for June 15, 2023

2023-06-15T17:32:38.355Z

API

Added webhooks for price list assignments.
Added limits for the coupon code length and coupon name. See Create a Coupon Code (Beta) and Create a New Coupon.

Stencil

Added information on how to access items in the Stencil object. See migration handlebars v3 to v4 for details.

Developer Blog

GraphQL Cart & Checkout Now Available in Open Beta

API Updates and Announcement for May 18, 2023

2023-05-18T17:17:47.577Z

Announcement

BigCommerce is preparing to deprecate our current SASS compiler, node-sass fork, in favor of the more modern node-sass, which will allow us to support the latest versions of Node (Node 18) in Stencil CLI.

BigCommerce is sunsetting node-sass on 11/1/2023. This deprecation means that after this date, your live storefront will run into styling issues if these issues are not addressed.

To ensure your storefront is up to date, please do the following:

Using the latest version of Stencil CLI, run the stencil bundle command to validate your theme’s code and note any errors in the console output.
- stencil bundle
For a majority of issues, we have supplied an option to run a script that will update your files with the correct formatting. This option can be done by running the following:
- To see what changes will be made without actually changing/saving said changes, we have created a dry run option.
  - stencil -scss-autofix.js --dry
- To make the changes and revalidate, run the following:
  - stencil -scss-autofix.js
  - stencil bundle
- You can test your site after making these changes to ensure there are no visual regressions. You can run stencil start as usual to preview the site.
- If everything looks good, you can run stencil push (or follow your normal theme deployment workflow) to push the changes live to your storefront.

API

Added should_subtract_store_tax field to Tax Settings API for tax-inclusive price calculations.
Updated the list of available protected UI sections for channel menus.
Added limit information for html field to Script API endpoints.
Added User scopes to API Accounts & OAuth Scopes.

Stencil

Added EarlyHint handlebar helper to the Handlebars Helpers Reference.

API Updates and Announcements for May 11, 2023

2023-05-11T17:16:28.682Z

API

Added a 400 error code to Get all customer groups and Delete a customer group endpoints.
We’ve rewritten our article on the Scripts API to better support upcoming product releases.

Stencil

B2B Edition, formerly BundleB2B, released its new Buyer Portal framework last week. We’ve extensively revised our article on B2B Edition for Stencil to clarify the differences.

Announcements

We’re excited to announce that we’ve split the Catalog API spec file into seven parts: Brands, Categories, Category Trees, Products, Product Modifiers, Product Variants, and Product Variant Options. This split should solve performance issues, as the old file was > 27k lines. This change also moves the Catalog API into its own section of the menu. We plan to delete the old spec file in two weeks. We welcome your feedback through our feedback collector in the lower right corner of the site or through any of our Dev Community channels.
We’ve also reorganized the Payments API files. Each Payments endpoint is now its own file. We chose to handle spec parsing issues that obscured the correct payment processing server and authentication mechanism. This change also clarifies the Payments API section of the menu.

Stencil Announcement for April 27, 2023

2023-04-27T17:08:10.009Z

Stencil

Added the Incompatible Directives article. This article covers the known divergent behavior and describes how to avoid unexpected compiler errors until the node-sass fork sunsets.

API Announcement for April 13, 2023

2023-04-13T17:15:07.596Z

Announcement

Added new Stencil videos to the Additional resources sections in the following articles:

API Updates and Announcements for February 2, 2023

2023-02-02T18:37:24.138Z

API

Added new endpoints (Get all metafields, Create a cart metafield, Get a cart metafield, Update a cart metafield, Delete a metafield) to the Carts API.

Stencil

Added getPageByGQL to the Stencil Utils documentation.

WordPress

Added current OAuth scope defaults to BC4WP Setup. For more information, see Getting your API credentials.

API Updates & Announcement for December 15, 2022

2022-12-15T21:16:38.064Z

Announcement

Added documentation on StagingPro, which provides a full-service sandbox, testing, staging, and CI/CD solution for Enterprise-level BigCommerce stores.

Stencil

Updated stencil start logging options with —verbose to enable logging of internal successful API calls in Stencil CLI.

API

Updated Price List Assignment batch limit to 25.

Developer Blog

API Update & Announcement for July 28, 2022

2022-07-28T16:50:28.098Z

API

Added the external_order_id field to the Orders API.

Stencil

We've added new custom handlebar helpers for get , getObject , moment , and option to replace the corresponding standard helpers. The new custom handlebar helpers are backward compatible.

Developer Blog

Introducing the Subscription Foundation

Node 12 End-of-life on April 30th

2022-03-29T16:49:54.023Z

Node 12 enters End-of-life on April 30, 2022 (https://endoflife.date/nodejs). From this date, new versions of Stencil CLI will drop support for Node 12, and add support for Node 14. In order to provide time for developers to update their Stencil development/deployment environments, we will not bump the required version of Stencil CLI to a version that requires Node 14+ until June 1, 2022.