June 2024

PWA Kit and Managed Runtime

PWA Kit

6/19/24

• Product Tile Enhancements
  • Drive conversion and shopper engagement and reduce implementation costs with our greatly improved product tiles available in the PWA Kit Retail React App. Product tiles now feature:
    • Promo callouts
    • Strike-through pricing
    • Product tile swatches for variant selection
    • Product badges
    • Use of the productSearch API with expansions, which offers improved performance over the combination of the productSearch and getProduct(s) APIs

6/18/24

• BM-Generated Sitemaps Available for Headless Sites
  • Easily create a sitemap in Business Manager (BM) for your headless or PWA Kit storefront built on B2C Commerce. Sitemaps provide search crawlers with instructions on the pages to index and site hierarchy and they help to improve SEO ranking. See Improve SEO with a Sitemap. See Improve SEO with a Sitemap.
• Collect Active Data Order Events
  • PWA Kit now supports the collection of Active Data order metrics. Use this collection to understand customer behavior and optimize your merchandising and segmentation strategy. See Active Data.

Managed Runtime

6/20/2024

• Origin Lockdown for Third-Party CDNs
  • Restrict access to your Managed Runtime environment to traffic coming from your third-party content delivery network (CDN). Set a shared access control header across your CDN and environment to ensure that shoppers, bots, and crawlers don’t access your environment directly.See Access Control Headers. and the projects_target_access_control_header_create API to learn how you can lock down your environment.

6/17/2024

• Environment Variable Support
  • Use Runtime Admin to manage environment variables. This feature is available as an alternative to managing environment variables by using the Managed Runtime API. Environment variables allow you to add variables into the application process running in an environment, without having to make code changes. See Environment Variables.

6/3/2024

• Centralized Logs in Log Center
  • This feature is now generally available.

    Troubleshoot errors in your site built with PWA Kit by using Log Center:

    • Search and filter many logs. Check historical logs.
    • Access a single user interface to view logs from Managed Runtime (MRT) and your B2C Commerce instance. Connect what's happening in your MRT environment with what's going on in your B2C Commerce instance.
    • Easily see MRT logs without using a CLI.

    See Debug Using Log Center.