# brutaldesign/swipebox

A touchable jQuery lightbox

Repository: https://github.com/brutaldesign/swipebox
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/swipebox
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Last push: 2024-01-21T13:27:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4962, "days_push": 955, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1942, forks 638 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:57.511323+00:00)

## What it is
Swipebox is a jQuery lightbox plugin for displaying images, videos, and inline content in an overlay. It supports swipe gestures on mobile, keyboard navigation on desktop, and CSS transitions with jQuery fallback.

## Use cases
- add a lightbox image gallery to a website
- display images with swipe navigation on mobile
- show youtube or vimeo videos in a lightbox overlay
- add keyboard-navigable photo viewer to a jquery site
- open inline html content in a modal overlay

## When to choose
- your site already uses jQuery and you need a simple lightbox
- you need touch/swipe support for mobile galleries
- you want easy CSS customization of the lightbox UI

## When to avoid
- you use a modern framework like React or Vue without jQuery
- you need advanced features like social sharing buttons or zoom
- you need a dependency-free vanilla JavaScript lightbox

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, animation, image-processing
- domain: frontend, web-development, media
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: jquery, lightbox, image-gallery, touch-gestures, mobile-web, mobile

## Member repositories
- brutaldesign/swipebox (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:57.511323+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 2026-08-30T03:08:03.611087+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/brutaldesign/swipebox (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:57.511323+00:00, sha fbbf0e8ebaef)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/swipebox (fetched 2026-08-29T10:47:25.737415+00:00, sha 12a8157ca091)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.