adobe-commerce vs ForestAdmin

adobe-commerce and ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a modest lead over adobe-commerce (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 32). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. ForestAdmin shows 3,415 stars across 87 public repos, 14 active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but ForestAdmin's footprint is roughly 87.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

adobe-commerce is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. ForestAdmin 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.