photoswipe

What is photoswipe?

PhotoSwipe is a JavaScript library for creating image galleries that work on both desktop and mobile devices. It provides a responsive, touch-friendly interface for viewing images, with features like zooming, panning, and fullscreen mode.

What are photoswipe's main functionalities?

Basic Gallery Setup

This code sets up a basic PhotoSwipe gallery with two images. It initializes the gallery with default options.

const PhotoSwipe = require('photoswipe');
const PhotoSwipeUI_Default = require('photoswipe/dist/photoswipe-ui-default');

const items = [
  {
    src: 'path/to/image1.jpg',
    w: 600,
    h: 400
  },
  {
    src: 'path/to/image2.jpg',
    w: 1200,
    h: 900
  }
];

const options = {};

const gallery = new PhotoSwipe(document.querySelectorAll('.pswp')[0], PhotoSwipeUI_Default, items, options);
gallery.init();

Custom Options

This code demonstrates how to customize the PhotoSwipe gallery with options like starting index, background opacity, and disabling the share element.

const options = {
  index: 0, // start at first slide
  showHideOpacity: true,
  bgOpacity: 0.7,
  shareEl: false
};

const gallery = new PhotoSwipe(document.querySelectorAll('.pswp')[0], PhotoSwipeUI_Default, items, options);
gallery.init();

Event Handling

This code shows how to add event listeners to the PhotoSwipe gallery for events like image load completion and gallery closure.

gallery.listen('imageLoadComplete', function(index, item) {
  console.log('Image loaded:', item.src);
});

gallery.listen('close', function() {
  console.log('Gallery closed');
});

Other packages similar to photoswipe

lightgallery

Lightgallery is a powerful and flexible JavaScript library for creating image and video galleries. It offers a wide range of features including touch and mouse drag support, responsive design, and various plugins for additional functionalities. Compared to PhotoSwipe, Lightgallery provides more built-in features and customization options out of the box.

fancybox

Fancybox is a JavaScript library for displaying images, videos, and other content in a lightbox overlay. It is highly customizable and supports various content types, including HTML and AJAX. Fancybox is known for its ease of use and extensive documentation. While PhotoSwipe focuses on image galleries, Fancybox offers more versatility in terms of content types.

slick-carousel

Slick Carousel is a popular JavaScript library for creating responsive carousels and sliders. It supports various content types, touch and swipe gestures, and multiple customization options. Unlike PhotoSwipe, which is primarily for image galleries, Slick Carousel is more focused on creating sliders and carousels for a variety of content.

README

PhotoSwipe Repository

JavaScript image gallery for mobile and desktop.

• Documentation and getting started guide.
• Demo and script home page.
• NPM npm install photoswipe.
• Bower bower install photoswipe.

Location of files

• Compiled PhotoSwipe JS and CSS files, SVG and PNG sprites are in the dist/ folder.
• Source files (.JS and .SCSS) are in the src/ folder. Note that PhotoSwipe uses Autoprefixer when compiling SASS files.
• Demo website is in the website/ folder.
• Documentation markdown files are in website/documentation/.

Plugins / extensions / addons

• Ruby gem.
• Ember.js addons: ember-photoswipe, ember-cli-photoswipe.
• Eager app.
• Koken CMS plugin.
• Orchard CMS module.
• Yellow CMS plugin.
• Kirby CMS plugin.
• Drupal CMF module.
• ProcessWire CMS module.
• SPIP CMS module.
• Fork CMS MediaLibrary widget.

Coded something useful? Email me and I’ll post a link to it here.

Build

To compile PhotoSwipe by yourself, make sure that you have Node.js, Grunt.js, Ruby and Jekyll installed, then:

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/dimsemenov/PhotoSwipe.git

2. Go inside the PhotoSwipe folder that you fetched and install Node dependencies

   cd PhotoSwipe && npm install

3. Run grunt to generate the JS and CSS files in the dist folder and the site in the _site/ folder

   grunt

Optionally:

• Run grunt watch to automatically rebuild files (JS, CSS, demo website and documentation) when you change files in src/ or in website/.
• Run grunt nosite to build just JS and CSS files (output is folder dist/).
• Run grunt pswpbuild to build just JS files. Param --pswp-exclude allows to exclude modules, for example grunt pswpbuild --pswp-exclude=history will exclude history module.

Using PhotoSwipe?

If you’ve used PhotoSwipe in some interesting way, or on the site of a popular brand, I’d be very grateful if you shoot me a link to it.

License

Script is licensed under MIT license with one exception: Do not create a public WordPress plugin based on it, as I will develop it. If you need to use it for a public WordPress plugin right now, please ask me by email first. Thanks!

Attribution is not required, but much appreciated, especially if you’re making a product for developers.

About

PhotoSwipe 4.0+ is developed by Dmitry Semenov. But initially script was created in 2011 by Code Computerlove, a digital agency in Manchester, they passed on development in March 2014. You can view source and documentation of old PhotoSwipe (<4.0) in history of this repo.