BigCommerce Widgets & Script Manager

Before writing code

Fetch live docs:

1. Fetch https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/docs/admin/widgets-and-scripts/overview for Widget SDK
2. Web-search site:developer.bigcommerce.com scripts api for Script Manager API
3. Web-search bigcommerce page builder widgets custom for custom widget patterns

Widget System

Architecture

Widgets are reusable content components managed via API:

• Widget Template — Handlebars template defining the HTML output
• Widget — an instance of a template with specific configuration data
• Placement — positions a widget in a specific theme region on specific pages
• Page Builder — admin drag-and-drop UI that creates widgets and placements