What is fancybox?
It is a tool that offers a nice and elegant way to add zooming functionality for images, html content and multi-media on your webpages. It is built on the top of the popular JavaScript framework jQuery and is both easy to implement and a snap to customize.
fancybox is a tool in the Javascript Utilities & Libraries category of a tech stack.
fancybox is an open source tool with 7.3K GitHub stars and 1.8K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to fancybox's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses fancybox?
Companies
5322 companies reportedly use fancybox in their tech stacks, including ViaVarejo, Riot Games, and GrubHub.
Developers
100 developers on StackShare have stated that they use fancybox.
fancybox Integrations
JavaScript, HTML5, jQuery, CSS 3, and Google Maps are some of the popular tools that integrate with fancybox. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with fancybox.
fancybox's Features
- Looks great on every device
- Swipe to navigate, spread/pinch to zoom in/out supported on touch devices
- Supports most popular sites as YouTube, Vimeo and Google maps out of the box
- It is possible to open a modal while another is still visible
fancybox Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to fancybox?
Bootstrap
Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
AngularJS
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
Vue.js
It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
