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description: The Progressive Web App (PWA) Kit is a new storefront technology for headless commerce using Salesforce Commerce APIs and React. It provides front-end developers with a more flexible and agile approach to build and maintain modern shopping experiences. This release focuses on localization updates and improvements related to SEO, performance, and shopper experience.
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# Build Modern Shopping Experiences with PWA Kit

The Progressive Web App (PWA) Kit is a new storefront technology for headless commerce using Salesforce Commerce APIs and React. It provides front-end developers with a more flexible and agile approach to build and maintain modern shopping experiences. This release focuses on localization updates and improvements related to SEO, performance, and shopper experience.

**Where:** Available to all Salesforce B2C Commerce customers.

**When:** July 5, 2022

**Why:** Each change has a numbered link to the relevant pull request in the open-source repository.

**Featured Change: Hot Reloading (Client Side)**

See your changes as soon as you make them! Hot reloading now works on the client side as well as the server side, thanks to hot module replacement.

A page reload is still required when:

- Adding syntactically invalid changes.
- Adding a new `loadable` page.
- Updating a `getProps` function.

**Changes pwa-kit-dev**

- Replace `Mobify` references/links with proper PWA Kit values. [#619](https://github.com/SalesforceCommerceCloud/pwa-kit/pull/619)
- Add support for a custom build directory to `pwa-kit-dev build`. [#628](https://github.com/SalesforceCommerceCloud/pwa-kit/pull/628)
- Introduce client-side hot module replacement. [#630](https://github.com/SalesforceCommerceCloud/pwa-kit/pull/630)

**Changes to pwa-kit-react-sdk**

- Remove console logs from route component. [#651](https://github.com/SalesforceCommerceCloud/pwa-kit/pull/651)

**Full Changelog**

- [v2.0.0...v2.1.0](https://github.com/SalesforceCommerceCloud/pwa-kit/compare/v2.0.0...v2.1.0)

**How:** The PWA Kit is available as an open-source project on GitHub. To get started, see the documentation on the [Salesforce Developers](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/commerce/pwa-kit-managed-runtime/overview) site.