Chroma vs Johnson & Johnson

Chroma and Johnson & Johnson both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Chroma (rank #209) holds a modest lead over Johnson & Johnson (rank #602) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 34). The gap of 15 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Johnson & Johnson is slightly ahead of Chroma. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Chroma is clearly ahead of Johnson & Johnson. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Chroma is ahead of Johnson & Johnson. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Johnson & Johnson is slightly ahead of Chroma.

Chroma carries 30,602 GitHub stars across 29 public repos, with 6 repositories active in the last 90 days and 94 external contributors on record. Johnson & Johnson shows 168 stars across 48 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Chroma's footprint is roughly 182.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Chroma is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Johnson & Johnson 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.