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AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages

By : Ruadhan O'Donoghue
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AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages

By: Ruadhan O'Donoghue

Overview of this book

Google introduced the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project to give mobile users lightning-fast response times when accessing web pages on mobile devices. AMP delivers great user experiences by providing a framework for optimizing web pages that otherwise would take much longer to load on a mobile platform. This book shows how to solve page performance issues using the mobile web technologies available today. You will learn how to build instant-loading web pages, and have them featured more prominently on Google searches. If you want your website to succeed on mobile, if you care about SEO, and if you want to stay competitive, then this book is for you! You will go on a mobile web development journey that demonstrates with concrete examples how to build lightning-fast pages that will keep your visitors on-site and happy. This journey begins by showing how to build a simple blog article-style web page using AMP. As new concepts are introduced this page is gradually refined until you will have the skills and confidence to build a variety of rich and interactive mobile web pages. These will include e-commerce product pages, interactive forms and menus, maps and commenting systems, and even Progressive Web Apps.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.Packtpub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
14
Actions and Events
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amp-bind Permitted Attribute Bindings

Dynamic content - fetching JSON data on page load


There are many uses cases for being able to retrieve content dynamically. For example, we might want to display a cart summary like we saw in the last chapter. Or on a product page, we might want to pull in a list of related products. On an article page, we might want to pull in a list of comments. AMP provides a very useful tool to help achieve these goals: amp-list.

The <amp-list> component

The amp-list component can be used to fetch JSON content dynamically from a server endpoint. It's included with the following script:

<script async custom-element="amp-list" src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-list-0.1.js"></script>

The server response is expected to contain an array property, with default name items:

{
  "items": [...]
}

Since we're dealing with JSON here, you're probably thinking that we can use amp-mustache again, like we did in the last chapter, and you'd be right! So, if we had name, price, quantity, and image JSON...