# jairajs89/Touchy.js

A simple light-weight JavaScript library for dealing with touch events

Repository: https://github.com/jairajs89/Touchy.js
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/touchyjs
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Last push: 2013-11-20T19:18:01+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": 5325, "days_push": 4669, "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 1077, forks 63 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:29.573422+00:00)

## What it is
Touchy.js is a lightweight (1.98 kb minified+gzip) JavaScript library for handling touch events in the browser. It wraps touch interactions into finger and hand abstractions, supporting multi-touch gestures with start/move/end event callbacks.

## Use cases
- handle touch and swipe gestures on mobile web pages
- detect multi-finger pinch or drag interactions
- track a finger's full touch-drag-release path as one object
- build custom touch-based UI controls without a framework
- add touch event support with a tiny dependency-free script

## When to choose
- you need a tiny, dependency-free touch event library for a mobile web project
- you want simple multi-touch handling with per-finger-count callbacks
- you're maintaining a legacy project that already uses Touchy.js

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained library with active support and a license file
- you're building a modern app where pointer events or a framework's gesture system suffice
- you need broad device compatibility testing and updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, mobile-development
- platform: browser
- tags: touch-events, multi-touch, lightweight, no-dependencies, mobile-web, javascript

## Member repositories
- jairajs89/Touchy.js (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:29.573422+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 2026-08-30T06:53:15.770019+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jairajs89/Touchy.js (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:29.573422+00:00, sha 48d4b6917b39)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.