This is the 10 best JavaScript and/or CSS libraries to zoom your images within the document for better user experience. I hope you like it and don’t forget to spread the world.
Originally Published Dec 17 2017, updated Dec 3rd 2018
1. Drift
Drift is a standalone and highly configurable JavaScript library that provides responsive, smooth hover (or touch) zoom effect on images.
2. Lightense.js
Lightense.js is a lightweight and simple to use JavaScript library for image zooming as you seen on Medium.com.
3. medium-zoom
medium-zoom is a lightweight and dependency-free JavaScript library used for creating a responsive, user-friendly image zoom / lightbox effect as seen on Medium.com pages.
4. Image Zoom
Image Zoom is a pure JavaScript library that provides an intelligent zoom experience on your web images. Inspired by Medium’s image zoom.
5. Detail View
Detail View is a vanilla JavaScript approach to zooming and panning an image on hover.
6. view-bigimgDetail View
view-bigimg is a JavaScript library which displays your image in a lightbox popup, with the capability of touch-friendly image zooming and image panning.
7. Image Magnify/Zoom Component With Vanilla JavaScript
The JavaScript image zoom component creates a magnifier-style mask over your image to view the portion of the image that you are hovering over.
8. focus.js
focus.js is an ES6/Vanilla JavaScript plugin to provide smooth interactive image inner zoom functionality that reacts to mouse movement.
9. Panzoom
Panzoom is a lightweight JavaScript library to pan and zoom images inside a container using drag and mouse wheel events.
10. Dead Simple Image Zoom In JavaScript – lumos
lumos is an ultra-light (1kb minified), dead simple and high-performance image zoom library written in pure JavaScript.