Mattermost vs OpenCart

Mattermost (Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform for connecting your teams, tools and processes to accelerate mission-critical work.) and OpenCart (PHP based open source ecommerce platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mattermost (rank #40) holds a meaningful lead over OpenCart (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (62 vs 41). The gap of 21 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Mattermost is clearly ahead of OpenCart. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), OpenCart is slightly ahead of Mattermost. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Mattermost is clearly ahead of OpenCart. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Mattermost is clearly ahead of OpenCart.

Mattermost carries 49,882 GitHub stars across 262 public repos, with 58 repositories active in the last 90 days and 105 external contributors on record. OpenCart shows 8,157 stars across 2 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 26 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mattermost's footprint is roughly 6.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Mattermost is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. OpenCart looks better where education 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.