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Shopware
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Rank #317
Score 44
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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

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Shopware vs The Washington Post

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

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 The Washington Post both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Shopware (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over The Washington Post (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 37). The gap of 7 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 The Washington Post. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Shopware is ahead of The Washington Post. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Shopware is clearly ahead of The Washington Post. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), The Washington Post is clearly ahead of Shopware. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Shopware is clearly ahead of The Washington Post.

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. The Washington Post shows 2,751 stars across 91 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors.

Shopware is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. The Washington Post 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricShopwareThe Washington Post
Ranking
Overall rank#317#510
Pillars
Overall4437
Code5550
Education6649
Community5018
Reach1850
Momentum4918
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars4,8972,751
Forks2,2421,061
Public repos8891
Active repos (90d)603
External contributors1020
Avg polish5555
Avg AI-readiness4030

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