Shopware vs Sprout Social

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) and Sprout Social both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Shopware (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over Sprout Social (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 41). The gap of 3 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Shopware carries 4,897 GitHub stars across 88 public repos, with 60 repositories active in the last 90 days and 102 external contributors on record. Sprout Social shows 313 stars across 68 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Shopware's footprint is roughly 15.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Shopware is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Sprout Social 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.