Showing recently viewed items on your online store makes it easier for the customers to return to their product hunt, which may boost the conversions and sales. The default Magento 2 provides a ?Recently Viewed Products? widget to display the recently viewed products to the customers. If you are a developer, sometimes you may require to add such functionality to the Magento 2 without accessing the admin panel. In such cases, you may require to programmatically display recently viewed products in Magento 2. You can easily add such functionality in Magento 2 programmatically by adding few lines of code into the catalog_product_view.xml in the layout folder.