Excalidraw vs Zscaler, Inc.

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and Zscaler, Inc. both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Zscaler, Inc. (rank #298) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 45). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Zscaler, Inc. is ahead of Excalidraw. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of Zscaler, Inc.. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is ahead of Zscaler, Inc.. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of Zscaler, Inc.. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Zscaler, Inc. 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. Zscaler, Inc. shows 337 stars across 58 public repos, 33 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 405.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Zscaler, Inc. 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.