AMP

Getting familiar with the starter code

AMP boilerplate

An AMP page is an HTML page with some restrictions for reliable performance. AMP pages have a bit of special markup that identifies it as an AMP page.

A bare bones AMP page looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html amp>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <link rel="canonical" href="hello-world.html" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
    <style amp-boilerplate>
      body {
        -webkit-animation: -amp-start 8s steps(1, end) 0s 1 normal both;
        -moz-animation: -amp-start 8s steps(1, end) 0s 1 normal both;
        -ms-animation: -amp-start 8s steps(1, end) 0s 1 normal both;
        animation: -amp-start 8s steps(1, end) 0s 1 normal both;
      }
      @-webkit-keyframes -amp-start {
        from {
          visibility: hidden;
        }
        to {
          visibility: visible;
        }
      }
      @-moz-keyframes -amp-start {
        from {
          visibility: hidden;
        }
        to {
          visibility: visible;
        }
      }
      @-ms-keyframes -amp-start {
        from {
          visibility: hidden;
        }
        to {
          visibility: visible;
        }
      }
      @-o-keyframes -amp-start {
        from {
          visibility: hidden;
        }
        to {
          visibility: visible;
        }
      }
      @keyframes -amp-start {
        from {
          visibility: hidden;
        }
        to {
          visibility: visible;
        }
      }
    </style>
    <noscript
      ><style amp-boilerplate>
        body {
          -webkit-animation: none;
          -moz-animation: none;
          -ms-animation: none;
          animation: none;
        }
      </style></noscript
    >
    <script async src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    Hello World!
  </body>
</html>

You can use the boilerplate generator to quickly setup a basic skeleton for your AMP page. It also provides snippets for structured data, to create a PWA and more!

AMP components

The tutorial's starter code (static/index.html) builds off the bare bones AMP page with its page content (images, text, etc.) as well as including a few AMP components:

<script
  async
  custom-element="amp-carousel"
  src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-carousel-0.1.js"
></script>
<script
  async
  custom-template="amp-mustache"
  src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-mustache-0.1.js"
></script>
<script
  async
  custom-element="amp-form"
  src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-form-0.1.js"
></script>
<script
  async
  custom-element="amp-selector"
  src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-selector-0.1.js"
></script>

AMP components offer additional functionality and UI components that add rich interactivity to AMP pages. The starter code uses the following AMP components:

  • amp-carousel: An image carousel that displays multiple views of the product.
  • amp-mustache: A templating system for rendering server responses from amp-form.
  • amp-form: Adds special functionality for <form> elements that are necessary for AMP pages.
  • amp-selector: Offers a semantic way to select one or many elements of a group of elements. Can be used as an input source to amp-form.

Basic interactivity

The starter code offers some basic interactivity:

  • The image carousel (an amp-carousel) displays multiple views of the product.
  • The product can be added to the user's cart (via amp-form) by tapping the "Add to cart" button on the bottom of the page.

Try it out: Swipe the image carousel and tap the "Add to cart" button.