Unlock the Power of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) in Next.js
What is AMP?
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is an open-source web framework that revolutionizes webpage loading speed by enforcing strict guidelines on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. By controlling how external resources like media, ads, and scripts are loaded, AMP ensures a seamless user experience.
Overcoming AMP Limitations
AMP’s restrictions can be challenging, but there’s a solution. We’ll explore how to harness the power of AMP components to display resource-intensive elements while adhering to AMP’s rules.
Discover the World of AMP Components
AMP components are custom-written pieces of HTML that enable complex features on your webpage while maintaining compliance with AMP standards. The component catalog includes built-in, extended, and experimental components for tasks like image loading, analytics, and ad display.
Configuring Your Webpage for AMP
To add an AMP component, you need to configure your webpage as an AMP page. You can do this by setting the amp configuration to true or hybrid. The true setting creates a pure AMP HTML page, while hybrid generates two versions of the page – one in AMP HTML and one in standard HTML.
Creating a True AMP Page
By setting amp to true, Next.js will create two versions of your page: an optimized version for users and an unoptimized version for search engines.
Using the useAmp React Hook
To render the correct HTML for AMP and standard HTML pages, you can use the useAmp React Hook. This hook allows you to write valid HTML for both page types.
Displaying an Image with amp-img
Let’s put it all together! We’ll use the amp-img component to display an image on our webpage. Since amp-img is a built-in component, we don’t need to import it explicitly.
Validating AMP Pages
Before exporting your AMP page, ensure it meets AMP’s requirements using tools like amphtml-validator. This built-in Next.js method checks for errors and warnings during building and exporting.
Exporting AMP Pages in Next.js
If there are no validation errors, running next export will export your pages to static HTML files. Next.js automatically detects if a page supports AMP and exports it in the correct format.
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