Is there a blog post or documentation I can use to justify pym's usage?

[mreinstein]

Is there a blog post or documentation I can use to justify pym's usage?

[thomaswilburn]

The blog post for Pym lays out the basic case for it: http://blog.apps.npr.org/pym.js/

I don't think Pym particularly works around many gotchas. The appeal for many people is that it's a well-tested solution that's been used by news organizations around the world for years. But it's a pretty simple library.

If you want something smaller and more modern, I recommend Sidechain, which is our rewrite of Pym for future applications and AMP compatibility: https://github.com/nprapps/sidechain There are also a number of other responsive frame libraries out there, like Frames (https://github.com/rdmurphy/frames/).

I understand the desire to stay away from third-party code, and it's not hard to reinvent what Pym does using messages. I've written two of them myself in the last five years (Sidechain and the Seattle Times responsive-frame element). I really think it's a question of how much time you want to spend on duplicating efforts, vs. just plugging in one of these libraries for what's pretty basic functionality.

[mreinstein]

I really think it's a question of how much time you want to spend on duplicating efforts,
vs. just plugging in one of these libraries for what's pretty basic functionality.

zero time, ideally. :-) I want to re-use a well-tested library.

If you want something smaller and more modern, I recommend Sidechain

Thanks for the links! I'll check 'em out.