adobe-commerce vs Excalidraw

adobe-commerce and Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over adobe-commerce (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 32). The gap of 23 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of adobe-commerce. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of adobe-commerce. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of adobe-commerce. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of adobe-commerce. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), adobe-commerce is ahead of Excalidraw.

adobe-commerce carries 39 GitHub stars across 21 public repos, with 9 repositories active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors on record. Excalidraw shows 136,744 stars across 25 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 3506.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

adobe-commerce is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Excalidraw looks better where education is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.