Access Product Variant Price with Stencil - bigcommerce

Question

With the legacy API, I can obtain product variant prices for productId 100 with the following:
https://something.com/api/v2/products/100/skus.json
But in the Stencil documentation for Product, there is no price property for a product attribute SKU, and the available properties that are available are limited vs the legacy API.
With product:
"values": [
{
"label": "Hardcover",
"id": 98,
"data": "Hardcover",
"selected": false
},
{
"label": "Paperback",
"id": 100,
"data": "Paperback",
"selected": false
}
],
From what I can gather, the variant pricing is only available via cart.items, but I need to display the prices before the user places an item in the cart.
Is there a way to get product variant pricing/info without using the cart.items object? Thanks!

Answer 1

I'm not aware of a way to do this via a stencil object.
On the product detail page I check if a product has_options, then make ajax calls to the variant URLs to get their prices to create a price range before the user selects their variants. This is pretty necessary when the vendor has huge price differences in variants.
ex.) "From $49.99 - $499.99" instead of "$49.99" default functionality.
I don't have a resolution for category pages as it doesn't make sense to make AJAX requests for each variant of each item on the category page on load. Once Stencil adds support for custom fields on the category page, you could add the child's prices to a parent SKUs custom field and perform some logic for whatever your trying to accomplish.
I don't know when custom fields will be available on the category page but I know they are working on it.