37signals vs Shopware

37signals (HEY! It's in Basecamp!) and Shopware (Shopware 6 is an open commerce platform based on Symfony Framework and Vue and supported by a worldwide community and more than 2.500 community extensions) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

37signals (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Shopware (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 44). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), 37signals is slightly ahead of Shopware. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Shopware is ahead of 37signals. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), 37signals is slightly ahead of Shopware. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), 37signals is clearly ahead of Shopware. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Shopware is slightly ahead of 37signals.

37signals carries 113,857 GitHub stars across 236 public repos, with 48 repositories active in the last 90 days and 298 external contributors on record. Shopware shows 4,897 stars across 88 public repos, 60 active in the last 90 days and 102 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but 37signals's footprint is roughly 23.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

37signals is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Shopware 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.