# zingchart/zingtouch

A JavaScript touch gesture detection library for the modern web

Repository: https://github.com/zingchart/zingtouch
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/zingtouch
Homepage: https://zingchart.github.io/zingtouch/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: gesture, touch, javascript, no-dependencies
Last push: 2025-09-22T17:56:25+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 42/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 43, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3823, "days_push": 345, "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 2140, forks 130 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:18.300020+00:00)

## What it is
ZingTouch is a dependency-free JavaScript library for detecting touch gestures in the browser. It ships six customizable standard gestures (tap, swipe, pan, pinch/expand, distance, rotate) and lifecycle hooks for building custom gestures.

## Use cases
- detect tap and swipe gestures on mobile web pages
- implement pinch-to-zoom in a web app
- add rotate gestures to an image viewer
- create custom touch gestures with lifecycle hooks
- handle touch events consistently across browsers

## When to choose
- you need lightweight, dependency-free touch gesture handling in vanilla JavaScript
- you want customizable or custom-defined gestures
- you're building touch-first web interfaces without a large framework

## When to avoid
- your framework already provides built-in gesture handling
- you need mouse/pointer unified event handling rather than touch
- you need a maintained library with frequent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, animation
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: touch-gestures, no-dependencies, mobile-web, gesture-detection, javascript

## Member repositories
- zingchart/zingtouch (main) score 42

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:18.300020+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 2026-08-30T02:51:30.146647+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/zingchart/zingtouch (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:18.300020+00:00, sha 897527cf9210)
  - homepage: https://zingchart.github.io/zingtouch/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:31:47.752214+00:00, sha 835ff0dd04bc)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.