# sachinchoolur/lightslider

JQuery lightSlider is a lightweight responsive Content slider with carousel thumbnails navigation

Repository: https://github.com/sachinchoolur/lightslider
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/lightslider
Homepage: http://sachinchoolur.github.io/lightslider/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-08-15T10:23:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4536, "days_push": 1479, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2013, forks 1481 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:05.311968+00:00)

## What it is
lightSlider is a lightweight jQuery plugin for building responsive content sliders and carousels with animated thumbnail navigation. It supports swipe/mouse drag, autoplay, infinite loop, breakpoint-specific settings, and can slide arbitrary content like videos or maps.

## Use cases
- add an image gallery with thumbnail navigation to a website
- create a responsive content carousel with autoplay and loop
- build a swipeable slideshow that works on mobile touch devices
- show multiple items per slide with per-breakpoint settings
- embed youtube or vimeo videos in a slider
- add multiple independent sliders on one page

## When to choose
- you are already using jQuery and need a small, simple slider
- you need thumbnail gallery navigation and touch swipe support
- you want broad legacy browser support including IE7+

## When to avoid
- you are building a modern framework app (React/Vue) without jQuery
- you need actively developed features or recent bug fixes
- you need advanced accessibility or SSR-friendly components

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, animation
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery, slider, carousel, slideshow, responsive, touch-swipe, thumbnails, nodejs

## Member repositories
- sachinchoolur/lightslider (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:05.311968+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 2026-08-30T03:00:55.314228+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sachinchoolur/lightslider (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:05.311968+00:00, sha a88a4a3a6dbc)
  - homepage: http://sachinchoolur.github.io/lightslider/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:41:10.796236+00:00, sha a02ad17a9eb0)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/lightslider (fetched 2026-08-29T10:41:10.799040+00:00, sha 1a515375f9a3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.