Adyen Examples vs OpenCart

Adyen Examples (Official examples for Adyen products and services) and OpenCart (PHP based open source ecommerce platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adyen Examples and OpenCart sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (41), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Adyen Examples carries 669 GitHub stars across 34 public repos, with 14 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. OpenCart shows 8,157 stars across 2 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 26 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but OpenCart's footprint is roughly 12.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adyen Examples is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. OpenCart looks better where reach 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.