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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
14
Actions and Events
16
amp-bind Permitted Attribute Bindings

Removing cart items with <amp-bind>


After that not-so-brief introduction to amp-bind, it's time to get back to the shopping cart. Earlier, we mentioned that a nice update to the cart would be if we could remove items via an XHR request without a full page reload. Let's build this now.

Recall that the shopping cart summary is fetched from the server via amp-list on page load. We're going to use amp-bind to trigger an amp-list fetch that will also remove an item from the cart.

Note

The product page examples in this chapter will use /ch8/product-start.html as a starting point. You can follow along with the examples by adding code to this file.

User-triggered updates with <amp-list> and <amp-bind>

With amp-bind, we can trigger amp-list to update, without a page reload, based on a user action such as tapping a button or entering some text. To do this, we must bind to the URL of amp-list with the square bracket syntax, like this: [src].

Note

This amp-bind/amp-list combination is powerful...