Show HN: The Best Lightbox Component Out There

Category: library

Tags: react, lightbox, headless-ui, gestures, image-viewer

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 5)

A headless React lightbox/image viewer built on Base UI and Motion, offering pinch-zoom, swipe, pull-to-dismiss, and thumbnail-to-full-photo morphing animations. It ships behavior-only styling with no bundled CSS, letting developers fully control the look through data attributes and CSS variables.

Target audience: frontend devs

Repository: https://github.com/frontendsupply/lightbox · TypeScript · MIT · 16 stars

View on Hacker News