# metafizzy/flickity

:leaves: Touch, responsive, flickable carousels

Repository: https://github.com/metafizzy/flickity
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/flickity
Homepage: https://flickity.metafizzy.co
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Last push: 2024-05-29T18:19:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4279, "days_push": 826, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7572, forks 594 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:01.705025+00:00)

## What it is
Flickity is a JavaScript library for building touch-enabled, responsive, flickable carousels, galleries, and sliders with physics-based animation. It works with plain HTML containers and offers a full-featured API, initialization via jQuery, vanilla JS, or HTML attributes.

## Use cases
- add a touch-friendly image gallery to a website
- build a responsive carousel slider
- create a swipeable product showcase
- implement a draggable slider with autoplay
- make a horizontally scrolling card list with wrap-around
- lazy-load images in a slideshow

## When to choose
- you need polished, physics-based touch/drag carousels in the browser
- you want a dependency-free vanilla JS slider with a rich options API
- your project is open source under a GPL-compatible license

## When to avoid
- you need a permissive (MIT/Apache) license for a commercial closed-source product without paying
- you need a React/Vue-native carousel component rather than a DOM library
- you require server-side rendering without a browser DOM

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, animation
- domain: frontend, web-development
- platform: browser
- tags: carousel, slider, touch, gallery, vanilla-javascript, dual-license, nodejs

## Member repositories
- metafizzy/flickity (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:01.705025+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:37:05.270362+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/metafizzy/flickity (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:01.705025+00:00, sha b8471cb031c0)
  - homepage: https://flickity.metafizzy.co (fetched 2026-08-29T08:32:42.521623+00:00, sha 4a32dc030d16)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/flickity (fetched 2026-08-29T08:32:42.528924+00:00, sha ae8a29341194)
  - site_page: https://flickity.metafizzy.co/license (fetched 2026-08-29T08:32:42.526481+00:00, sha 4e59e7869c78)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.