Excalidraw vs Hashnode

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and Hashnode (Everything you need to start blogging as a developer!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Hashnode (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 33). The gap of 22 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Excalidraw carries 136,744 GitHub stars across 25 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors on record. Hashnode shows 6,853 stars across 26 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 20.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Hashnode makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.