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AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages

By : Ruadhan O'Donoghue
Book Image

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
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Actions and Events
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amp-bind Permitted Attribute Bindings

A live Twitter search listing


As a slightly more practical example, let's build a simple Twitter search page that could be used to show updates for a particular hashtag or search term.

Since we're dealing with dynamic content, this is going to need some server-side processing. It will work like this:

  1. The server will perform a search via the Twitter API.
  2. The set of tweet statuses returned by the API will be output as amp-live-list child items, with the unique tweet ID used as the id of the amp-live-list items, and the tweet time used as the data-sort-time.
  3. The amp-live-list component will then poll the server from the client's browser at 15-second intervals. This will cause the server to search via the Twitter API again, and build the AMP page again. The browser basically fetches this page in the background, but doesn't render it.
  4. If amp-live-list detects any new tweets in the latest response from the server, the update button will be shown.
  5. When the update button is tapped, any new item will be...