Localization and Internationalization in BigCommerce Catalyst describe the ability to present a personalized shopping experience for shoppers in different locales. Catalyst utilizes the Next.js App Router Internationalization library to detect and track a shopper’s preferred locale, enabling the delivery of content in the correct language, the application of locale-specific formatting, and the tailoring of product offerings to specific locales.
Customer session management is the process of tracking a user’s interaction with an application. It maintains their authenticated state and stores temporary data throughout their visit. Bigcommerce Catalyst uses a customer access token obtained during customer login to identify that customer’s context when making GraphQL Storefront API queries and mutations.
Routing in a web application is the process that resolves a particular URL path to a rendered page. Catalyst has a pre-built, opinionated routing scheme for all major storefront page types. BigCommerce products, categories, brands, and web pages each have a URL path value.
To deploy BigCommerce Catalyst with Vercel, a few procedures are necessary. BigCommerce Catalyst is the headless commerce starter kit from BigCommerce, developed with Next.js, to deploy the kit on Vercel easily. Steps to Deploy Bigcommerce Catalyst with Vercel Follow these steps to deploy Bigcommerce Catalyst with Vercel: Step 1: Clone the Catalyst Repository You have […]
Like all complex front-end web applications, Bigcommerce Catalyst Storefront utilizes a number of strategies to ensure performance, which includes both fast-loading pages for users and efficient utilization of back-end resources. We’ve examined the key strategies in the areas of data fetching, caching, and static rendering.
You can create a new Catalyst storefront channel in the Channels section of the store control panel, just like other channel types. This process, referred to as One-Click Catalyst, does more than create a channel; it also includes deploying a hosted preview of the storefront and provisioning a corresponding site in the Makeswift visual editor.
The backbone of Catalyst is a limited set of tools that have wide adoption and popularity in enterprise web application development. This means developers can build on top of Catalyst with the frameworks and languages they already love to use.
Shopify Magic is a set of free, AI-powered tools built directly into Shopify’s products and workflows. It helps you to easily start, manage, and grow your business. It works behind the scenes using the latest AI technology, offering smart, personalized support. Shopify Magic is helpful in everything from building your store and marketing your products […]
Shopify’s Online Store 2.0 is a collection of features and improvements of existing features that help to make themes and theme apps easier to build. It makes the themes more flexible and easier to maintain. It mostly relies on JSON templates rather than Liquid templates. Previously, only the homepage used the JSON templates; all other […]
Shopify Flow is a custom automation platform that you can use for different tasks and processes within the Shopify stores and across other apps. It watches over the shopify store for different events and lets you create different actions that are taken in response. You can automate different tasks and processes inside your store and […]
Shopify Email templates, also known as Email Notification templates, are pre-built email structures that are sent to customers in Shopify. These templates are used to send notification emails to customers about different store events, such as products purchased, orders fulfilled, and more. Shopify stores have many email templates, which you can access from the notification section […]
BigComemrce has recently given updates about the Node-Sass Compiler. Node-Sass compiler is important in utilizing the SCSS in the store theme. BigCommerce is closing the support for node-sass from January 21, 2024.
