django-amp-tools project improvement

[Pratham Jangra]

Hello developers

This is Pratham Jangra, a Computer Science & Engineering undergrad sophomore.

For GSoC 2021, I am making a proposal to solve some problems in the django-amp-tools project. The most important one is to create a library for auto-parsing HTML tags.

 

Importance: As we all know AMP is used by a massive amount of websites for webpages to load faster and get pages optimized for mobile browsing. Nowadays AMP is heavily used for user-first websites, stories, ads, emails. It is widely used for SEO in websites as Google prefers it and gives the website a higher ranking.

 

Problems/Ideas: AMP uses equivalent HTML tags to optimize a particular webpage. But there are still some issues yet to be resolved as follows:

• AMP is based on components

  • Not all tags have equivalent representation in HTML which is a big issue because day by day content is increasing on AMP pages and we will eventually need those tags to render the pages. This is the problem I have faced personally while using AMP boilerplate for a website. There is no amplify tag equivalent.

  • Translation is still a big issue for AMP.  Currently all HTML cannot be translated.

  • Automatic parsing: If there is a way to automatically parse all tags of HTML then most of the issues of equivalent representation in AMP will be solved. for e.g. <img>. All we would need to do is create a library to automatically create an AMP-equivalent page of the existing HTML page.

  • Need for stabilize the parsing.

I did my research as much as possible but still some issues are there and we can create a new library for auto-parsing the tags in normal HTML. My proposal is still in work and I would really appreciate feedback and suggestions on these issues. Please advise me to implement any other features and if there is anything wrong in the whole idea. I am open to any new ideas; and please correct me if I have missed anything in the whole idea. Thank you.

 

Regards

Pratham Jangra

[Adam Johnson]

Hi Pratham,

Sorry to be a bit of a downer here...

The django-amp-tools project is not an official django project and has not been updated for a while (it doesn't support *any* currently supported Django versions). It's also not particularly popular - 65 stars - and in general I feel like AMP is in decline. Better CDN's and HTTP/2+3 allow for faster delivery of vanilla HTML. So I'm not sure we could support a project contributing to django-amp-tools. That said I'm prepared to be proven wrong, I know big news sites tend to still support AMP so there's probably some value there.

Did you check out the wiki page on GSoC and its suggested projects? https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2021

Thanks,

Adam

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[Pratham Jangra]

Can I propose to make an official Django  library for AMP?

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[Carlton Gibson]

This might be OK as a third-party package but I don't think it would be something we'd include in Django itself.

Nor I think would we accept it as a GSoC project. 

Sorry. 

Kind Regards,

Carlton