BookStackApp vs Salesforce

BookStackApp and Salesforce (Noteworthy Open Source projects made available by Salesforce. Available under Open Source or Creative Commons licensing. No warranty or support implied) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a modest lead over BookStackApp (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 41). The gap of 16 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

BookStackApp carries 19,167 GitHub stars across 6 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Salesforce's footprint is roughly 3.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

BookStackApp is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Salesforce looks better where code quality 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.