Documentation

Platform guidelines for the team. New here? Start with the BigCommerce Developer Onboarding curriculum, then set up your environment.

BigCommerce Developer Onboarding

The full self-serve training path: themes, Handlebars, customization, REST & GraphQL APIs, apps, Catalyst & headless - from first tweak to advanced builds.

Environment setup

Install Node with NVM (Windows and macOS/Linux) and switch between versions.

BigCommerce guidelines

Create API accounts, understand v2 vs v3 access tokens, and set up the Stencil CLI token for theme development.

Shopify guidelines

Install the Shopify CLI and use the pull, preview, and push workflow with our theme versioning convention.

Web accessibility and compliance

What WCAG and the ADA are, why stores get accessibility demand letters, the overlay-widget myth, and how a site is actually brought into compliance.