# rpearce/react-medium-image-zoom

🔎 🏞 The original medium.com-inspired image zooming library for React (since 2016)

Repository: https://github.com/rpearce/react-medium-image-zoom
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-medium-image-zoom
Homepage: https://rpearce.github.io/react-medium-image-zoom/
Language: TypeScript
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: image-zoom, medium, react, props, zoom, react-images, zoom-images, zoomable, typescript, reactjs, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-26T03:30:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 85, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3703, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 22, "gap_med": 32, "n_releases_24m": 16}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2117, forks 104 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:16.338047+00:00)

## What it is
A React library that adds Medium.com-style image zooming to images, background images, picture elements, figures, and SVGs. It has been maintained since 2016, has zero dependencies, and includes accessibility support for major screen readers.

## Use cases
- add medium-style image zoom to a react site
- make images expandable on click in react
- zoomable images with object-fit support
- accessible image lightbox for react
- zoom images in next.js or gatsby
- custom zoom modal content for images

## When to choose
- you want the original medium-inspired zoom behavior in React
- you need screen-reader accessibility and keyboard support out of the box
- you want a zero-dependency, lightweight zoom solution
- you use Next.js or Gatsby image components

## When to avoid
- your project is not React-based
- you need to support very old browsers lacking <dialog> or ResizeObserver
- you need a full-featured lightbox gallery with thumbnails and navigation

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: ui-components, animation, image-processing, accessibility
- domain: frontend, web-development, web-design
- platform: browser
- tags: react, image-zoom, medium-style, lightbox, typescript, zero-dependencies, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- rpearce/react-medium-image-zoom (main) score 94

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.338047+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 2026-08-30T02:53:18.457096+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rpearce/react-medium-image-zoom (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.338047+00:00, sha abc1595379ec)
  - homepage: https://rpearce.github.io/react-medium-image-zoom/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:33:37.733977+00:00, sha e2fbed70c055)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.