commercetools vs Excalidraw

commercetools (commerce platform for customer-focused industry leaders) 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.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a narrow lead over commercetools (rank #190) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 50). The gap of 5 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

commercetools carries 1,270 GitHub stars across 221 public repos, with 37 repositories active in the last 90 days and 16 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 107.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

commercetools 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.