Course Overview
Lesson 1 of 25 · 5 min
This course will introduce you to the Buyer Portal, the shopper-facing experience for BigCommerce B2B Edition stores. You will learn about the key architecture and capabilities of the Buyer Portal app, as well as strategies for interacting with and customizing the portal.
Hands-on exercises will guide you through interacting with the Buyer Portal’s global utilities, querying via the B2B GraphQL API, and customizing the Buyer Portal to make it your own.
This course requires the use of a BigCommerce store with B2B Edition installed and enabled!
Contact your BigCommerce account representative to enable B2B Edition on a partner or developer sandbox store.
Course Objectives
- Explain the core architecture of the Buyer Portal app.
- Identify key strategies for Buyer Portal customization.
- Identify important third-party libraries used in the app.
- Examine key patterns for routing, component structure, global state, and data fetching.
- Apply customization techniques with hands-on labs.
