🚀 Spree Commerce Open Source: 15,000 GitHub Stars and Counting
Spree Commerce has reached a major milestone — 15,000 stars on GitHub, making it the number one open-source eCommerce platform built with Ruby on Rails and the number four eCommerce project on GitHub overall.
This remarkable achievement highlights not only Spree’s longevity and technical excellence but also the passion of its growing global community of developers and merchants who continue to shape the future of open-source commerce.
🌍 Why This Matters
In the world of open-source eCommerce, GitHub stars are a signal of community trust, long-term interest, and active participation. As we noted in our earlier post, Open-source eCommerce platforms and their GitHub stars, stars are lightweight endorsements that show how valuable a project is to developers.
For Spree, which has grown within the Ruby on Rails eCommerce ecosystem for over a decade, this milestone is especially meaningful. The Rails community is smaller than some others — but highly engaged, experienced, and quality-driven. Achieving 15,000 stars signals that Spree isn’t just enduring — it’s thriving.
🧱 Built with Ruby on Rails
Spree Commerce is proudly built with Ruby on Rails — a web development framework designed for speed, productivity, and developer happiness. Rails empowers developers to ship faster with clean, maintainable code and conventions that prioritize creativity over complexity.
Rails has been used by many of the web’s top companies — including Shopify, GitHub, Airbnb, and Basecamp — proving its ability to scale from startups to global platforms.
By choosing Rails, Spree inherits its core values:
- Rapid development speed → perfect for startups and growing brands who need to move fast.
- Convention over configuration → reduces boilerplate and makes customization easy.
- A joyful developer experience → encouraging long-term community participation.
Together, Rails and Spree form a powerful foundation for building modern, API-driven eCommerce platforms that balance flexibility, speed, and reliability.
This DNA — developer happiness and agility — is what makes Spree the go-to Ruby on Rails eCommerce framework for teams that want to innovate quickly.
📌 What Is Spree Commerce?
Spree Commerce is an open-source eCommerce framework that gives developers and merchants the freedom to build fully customizable online stores.
- It’s modular and API-first, allowing headless commerce setups and seamless integration with modern front-ends.
- It’s community-driven, with thousands of contributors and businesses helping shape its roadmap.
- It’s battle-tested, with over a decade of use in production environments worldwide.
From multi-vendor marketplaces to high-performance B2B stores, Spree has evolved through years of real-world feedback to become a mature, stable, and market-ready solution for modern digital commerce.
You can learn more about Spree’s mission and features in the official documentation.
⭐ Why 15,000 GitHub Stars Matter
The GitHub eCommerce ecosystem is vast — but few projects have demonstrated the staying power and active community engagement that Spree has.
Reaching 15,000 stars underscores several key truths about Spree:
- Community Confidence – Thousands of developers and merchants recognize Spree as a reliable and innovative eCommerce solution.
- Open Collaboration – Stars reflect appreciation for transparent development and active maintainers.
- Sustained Innovation – Frequent updates and new integrations show Spree is evolving with the industry.
- Language Leadership – For a Ruby on Rails eCommerce framework, this level of traction is exceptional.
💬 Connect, Collaborate, and Contribute
Every strong open-source project thrives on participation — and Spree is no exception.
Our Slack and GitHub communities are where collaboration turns into progress.
- 💬 Join the Slack community — talk with the core team and other developers in real time.
- 💻 Explore the GitHub repo — see the code, submit ideas, or star the project if you haven’t already.
- 🛠️ Start contributing — follow our quickstart guide to make your first pull request or enhancement.
Joining these channels connects you directly with the Spree core team and thousands of other contributors working to make open-source eCommerce better every day.
✅ What You Can Do Right Now
- ⭐ Give Spree a star on GitHub to show your support.
- 🧑💻 Join over 7,000 Spree users on the Spree Slack channels to get support.
- 🔧 Read the Contributing Quickstart Guide and help improve Spree.
- 🏗️ Explore how Spree + Ruby on Rails can power your next project.
❤️ Thank You, Spree Community
To everyone who contributed, starred, or helped someone on Slack — thank you!
Hitting 15,000 GitHub stars is a celebration of the open-source spirit that has driven Spree since day one: collaboration, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement.
Here’s to the next 15,000 stars — and to a thriving future for Ruby on Rails eCommerce.
👉 Join the open-source movement:
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