Front vs Shopware

Front and Shopware (Shopware 6 is an open commerce platform based on Symfony Framework and Vue and supported by a worldwide community and more than 2.500 community extensions) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Shopware (rank #317) holds a modest lead over Front (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 33). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Front carries 103 GitHub stars across 122 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Shopware shows 4,897 stars across 88 public repos, 60 active in the last 90 days and 102 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Shopware's footprint is roughly 47.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Front is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Shopware 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.