Shopware vs Starling Bank

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 Starling Bank both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Shopware (rank #317) holds a modest lead over Starling Bank (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 slightly ahead of Starling Bank. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Shopware is ahead of Starling Bank. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Shopware is clearly ahead of Starling Bank. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Starling Bank is clearly ahead of Shopware. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Shopware is slightly ahead of Starling Bank.

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. Starling Bank shows 195 stars across 3 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Shopware's footprint is roughly 25.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Shopware is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Starling Bank 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.