ForestAdmin vs ShopwareLabs

ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) and ShopwareLabs both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a narrow lead over ShopwareLabs (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 43). The gap of 8 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

ForestAdmin carries 3,415 GitHub stars across 87 public repos, with 14 repositories active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors on record. ShopwareLabs shows 144 stars across 28 public repos, 11 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but ForestAdmin's footprint is roughly 23.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. ShopwareLabs 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.