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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

Summary


In this chapter, we introduced a programming layer for AMP with amp-bind. This allowed us to create even richer and more interactive pages than would otherwise be possible within the confines of AMP's restrictions. Through the techniques in this chapter, we were able to build professional-grade e-commerce experiences. We saw how to build XHR searches with sorting and filtering, as well as autosuggest partial search matches. We saw how to improve our shopping cart by supporting XHR adding and removal of items from the cart.

In short, amp-bind opens up a whole new dimension for your AMP pages. It's not quite JavaScript, but it's powerful enough to deliver most of the functionality you'll need. However, when even amp-bind is not enough, there's still another option: amp-iframe. In the next chapter, we'll learn some further techniques that will help us fill the gaps when AMP doesn't quite fit our needs. With amp-iframe we can include features and functionality not currently possible in...