Front vs Kanboard

Front and Kanboard (Kanban project management software) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Front and Kanboard sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (33), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Front carries 103 GitHub stars across 122 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Kanboard shows 10,509 stars across 52 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Kanboard's footprint is roughly 102.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Front is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Kanboard looks better where community 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.