Excalidraw vs The PrestaShop Project

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and The PrestaShop Project (The universal open-source software platform to build your e-commerce solution.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a narrow lead over The PrestaShop Project (rank #209) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 49). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of The PrestaShop Project. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), The PrestaShop Project is slightly ahead of Excalidraw. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of The PrestaShop Project. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), The PrestaShop Project is clearly ahead of Excalidraw.

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. The PrestaShop Project shows 11,935 stars across 292 public repos, 59 active in the last 90 days and 71 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 11.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. The PrestaShop Project looks better where momentum 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.