BigCommerce vs Excalidraw

BigCommerce 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.

BigCommerce and Excalidraw sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (55), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

BigCommerce carries 3,505 GitHub stars across 281 public repos, with 25 repositories active in the last 90 days and 51 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 39.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

BigCommerce is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Excalidraw 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.