noelboss/featherlight
Featherlight is a very lightweight jQuery lightbox plugin. It's simple yet flexible and easy to use. Featherlight has minimal css and uses no inline styles, everything is name-spaced, it's completely customizable via config object and offers image, ajax and iframe support out of the box. Featherlights small footprint weights about 4kB – in total. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4697
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 695
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2070 stars · 286 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Featherlight is an ultra-slim (~4kB) jQuery lightbox plugin supporting images, ajax content, iframes, and custom DOM content. It uses minimal namespaced CSS, is fully customizable via config objects or data attributes, and includes a gallery extension.
Use cases
- open images in a lightbox on click
- display ajax-loaded html in a modal dialog
- show iframe content in a popup overlay
- build an image gallery with lightbox navigation
- add a lightweight modal to a jQuery site
- open a hidden div as a lightbox
When to choose
- your site already uses jQuery and you need a tiny lightbox
- you want minimal, easily overridable CSS with no inline styles
- you need image, ajax, and iframe lightbox support out of the box
When to avoid
- starting a new project without jQuery dependency
- you need a modern framework-native modal component
- you need heavy features like zoom, touch gestures, or video players
Facets
plugin · maturity maintenance
ui-components animation web-development frontend browser jquery-plugin lightbox modal popup gallery minimal-css javascript
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/noelboss/featherlight · fetched 2026-08-28 · cc818c071f08
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/featherlight · fetched 2026-08-29 · e7693de7ef63
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| noelboss/featherlight | main | 23 |
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