As a theme developer, I should be able to open the storefront/theme editor locally

[steve-ross]

Expected behavior

The stencil-cli allows developers to test configurable storefront options by using the storefront customizer on their local machines.

Actual behavior

Looks like this option has been removed from stencil-cli

Steps to reproduce behavior

stencil start -e

Removed theme editor in release 2.1 REF: 5f18c44

[junedkazi]

@steve-ross yes it was deprecated since the one in cli and the one exposed in the stores no longer matched and provided the same user experience. In its place we have added a small validator which validates your schema.json file.

We are looking what the future of cli and theme editor look like. But for now you will have to bundle and test it on a store.

[brandonjp]

@junedkazi Any update on this? Plans or thoughts? I keep switching back to Stencil v1 so I can use -e to test my schema changes. Maybe there were drawbacks that haven't affected me but even though the style changed, the old editor was at least incredibly more convenient.

[LordZardeck]

@junedkazi Yeah, this was a big deal at my agency. It helped tremendously. BigCommerce Development is already sub-par with having to test things by deploying them live first, it was nice to at least test the theme editor changes. My team will have to be locked to V1 until this comes back. Is there anywhere we can follow updates on this? Also, this might be a good issue to pin.