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I'm sure you have better things to do than build a lightbox from scratch. Take 10 minutes to learn someone else's solution and you can move on to solving the actual problem for which you were tasked, which likely has little to do with lightboxes.

>because like with any other code if you are the one who developed it you understand it

You're suffering classic NIH syndrome. Take ownership of the library you use, jump in and get an understanding of whats going on there.

It will be quicker than re-inventing the wheel, and getting up to speed with an existing codebase is a skill that you'll need at some point.

Maybe, I mean I still use jQuery and any else that's relevant but a lightbox is such an aesthetic, simple thing that I wouldn't consider it NIH to prefer creating one that suits a website more (if the website's design is a big focus)

I hate plugins also. Actually someone will save megs of traffic and seconds of computation doing ones own lightboxes and sliders. Any kind of them.