commercetools vs ForestAdmin

commercetools (commerce platform for customer-focused industry leaders) and ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a narrow lead over commercetools (rank #189) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 50). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. ForestAdmin shows 3,415 stars across 87 public repos, 14 active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors.

commercetools is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. ForestAdmin 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.