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CourseLit

Open-source platform to build and sell online courses

Learning & Courses ★ 1.3k stars Medium setup MIT

CourseLit is an open-source learning management system for creating, hosting, and selling online courses. It includes a course builder, payment integration, and a student dashboard.

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Key features

  • Course builder
  • Payment integration
  • Student dashboard
  • Email marketing

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (1.3k GitHub stars)
  • Written in TypeScript

Is CourseLit secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect CourseLit's latest release (v0.74.2). OSV.dev lists 1 past advisory for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2025-32816, published 2025-04-11 (551 days ago), fixed in 0.57.5

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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