Open edX vs Woo

Open edX (The community-driven, open-source project powering edX.org and thousands of other online education sites around the world.) and Woo (The company behind WooCommerce, the open-source commerce platform for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Woo (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Open edX (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 42). The gap of 13 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Open edX carries 10,654 GitHub stars across 186 public repos, with 100 repositories active in the last 90 days and 91 external contributors on record. Woo shows 23,045 stars across 247 public repos, 47 active in the last 90 days and 100 external contributors.

Open edX is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Woo 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.