Recurly vs Shopware

Recurly 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.

Recurly and Shopware sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (44), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Recurly carries 1,564 GitHub stars across 53 public repos, with 26 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 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 3.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Recurly is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. 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.