Introduction

Headless LMS gives you the full domain of a learning management system: courses, progress, entitlements, and org-scoped multi-tenancy exposed as a typed API. It is headless by design so you can build whatever frontend you want, but also comes with fully featured frontends so you can get started quickly.

What can you do with Headless LMS

You can build and run a fully featured LMS, create online courses and rich learning experiences, extend the platform with custom plugins, and integrate with your existing tech stack.

The API is designed to be flexible and extensible, so you can build your own custom integrations and workflows.

Why headless

So you can build any frontend you want or integrate any product. Build a custom course designer, or a custom admin dashboard. It comes with a fully featured admin dashboard out of the box.

It's composable, so you can use your own tech stack and easily replace any part of the system with your own implementation.

It ships with sane defaults so it's ready to go out of the box. Authentication, multi-tenancy, emails, workflows, file hosting, and more are all baked in.

Quick start

Create a standalone installation using the CLI. It scaffolds a project that uses the default adapters so you're up and running in seconds.

npm create headless-lms

Prefer to explore the source first? Clone the repository and follow the self-hosting guide to run the API, admin dashboard, and student portal locally.