Heads-up: maintained fork @zdila/react-gradient-color-picker (bundles open PRs + fixes)

[zdila]

👋 First, thanks for this library — it's genuinely useful. This is a friendly heads-up, not a complaint.

I needed several of the open PRs plus a few bug fixes for a project sooner than they were likely to land here, so rather than carry local patches I published a small maintained fork:

• 📦 npm: @zdila/react-gradient-color-picker
• 🔗 repo: https://github.com/zdila/react-gradient-color-picker

Why it exists

A number of community PRs have been open for a while, and some bugs I hit overlapped with them. The fork bundles those into a published, buildable package so they're usable today.

What's in it

Merged / reworked from open PRs:

• fix: drag limitation on mousemove #128 — "drag outside the component" fix (used as the base; includes the Yarn→pnpm migration)
• Updated currentValue to be optional in getGradientObject #129 — optional currentValue in getGradientObject
• Fixed mobile interaction with colormap and sliders #130 & Refactor slider handlers for better optimization and smooth animation & added touch support #132 — mobile/touch support, reworked onto a single Pointer Events path so mouse, touch and pen share one code path (I deliberately kept the public barSize option rather than Refactor slider handlers for better optimization and smooth animation & added touch support #132's barHeight rename, to stay API-compatible)
• the sound part of Current Value added to multiple functions plus gradient bug fix for current value #113 — getGradientObject(currentValue) now recomputes isGradient/gradientType/degrees from the passed value

Additional fixes (upstream issue refs):

• Gradient with a missing last percent failing to parse #87 — color stops without an explicit % no longer parse to NaN%
• HSV/HSL text inputs for Saturation and Value/Lightness are broken #126 — number inputs are freely editable (no clamp-on-every-keystroke / backspace snap-back)
• useColorPicker config param doesn't effects on picker #127 — useColorPicker's config arg accepts a partial config (no longer forces barSize/crossSize)
• clicking on the handle dots is not working #123 — double-click a gradient stop to delete it
• saturation/value square can reach the corners again (pure white 255,255,255 was previously unreachable)
• upgraded to TypeScript 6 and refreshed dependencies

In the fork this also resolves the mobile/interaction reports #54, #108 and #112.

Intent

This is an unofficial fork, not affiliated with this project, and I'm not trying to fragment anything. I'm happy to open PRs for any of the above if you'd like to pull them upstream, and equally happy to archive the fork once they land here. Mainly flagging it so anyone hitting these issues can find a working option.

Thanks again! 🙏

(Fork prepared with Claude Code.)