SCORM packagers, SDKs and libraries for developers

The pieces you build with when the course is an application, not a slide deck.

Compiled and checked by the scorm-tools.com editor. Last updated 24 August 2026.

This is the developer end of the directory, and the part no other directory covers — general software indexes exclude libraries and CLIs, and e-learning listings only track products with a pricing page.

Packagers and CLIs take a built web app and emit a conformant zip: manifest, resource declarations, the right SCORM version, sensible identifiers. Several are bundler plugins, so a course built with Vite or webpack produces a package as a build artefact rather than a manual step. API wrappers live on the content side and give your application a sane interface over the raw SCORM API — initialise, get, set, commit, terminate — while handling the LMS quirks that make raw integration miserable. Manifest tooling parses and validates imsmanifest.xml, which is where a surprising share of import failures originate. Framework integrations wrap all of that for React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Unity and Godot.

What to look at before adopting one: does it support both SCORM 1.2 and 2004, does it expose a persistence boundary you can control, and is it still maintained? Every listing here carries the licence, the last commit date and an honest maintenance badge, because a wrapper abandoned in 2019 can still be the right answer — but you should know that going in.

26 tools · 26 open source · 4 support cmi5

Order is editorial and never for sale: standards coverage first, then maintenance state, then popularity, then alphabetical. How we list .

Standard

Licence

Platform

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Showing 26 of 26

@gamestdio/scorm

A TypeScript port of the pipwerks wrapper, published once in 2019 and untouched since

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen sourceStale

@studiolxd/scorm

Headless SCORM 1.2 and 2004 runtime with React, Vue, Angular, Svelte and Web Component adapters

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen source

@szenadam/scorm-api-wrapper

A TypeScript reimplementation of the pipwerks SCORM wrapper, published to npm

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen sourceStale

RESCORM

React boilerplate that ships SCORM tracking alongside the application code

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen sourceStale

React SCORM Provider

A React context and higher-order component over the pipwerks SCORM wrapper

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen sourceStale

SCOBot

SCORM 1.2 and 2004 content wrapper with a mock LMS for working offline

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

CC-BY-SA-4.0Open source

SCOL-R

A thin SCORM shell that proxies the API to content hosted on another domain

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen source

SCORM Cloud API v2 clients

Rustici's generated client libraries for the SCORM Cloud REST API, in six languages

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004 · xAPI · cmi5 · AICC

Apache-2.0Open source

SCORM-Manifests

Boilerplate imsmanifest.xml files for single-SCO SCORM 1.2 and 2004 packages

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

No licence fileOpen sourceStale

SCORMify

Sixty lines of JavaScript that turn a folder of HTML into a SCORM 1.2 package

Standards supported: 1.2

MITOpen sourceStale

Tessera

Author a course as Svelte pages, then export the same source as SCORM, cmi5 or xAPI

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004 · xAPI · cmi5

MITOpen source

Unity-SCORM Integration Kit

Export a Unity WebGL build as a SCORM 2004 package and report progress from C#

Standards supported: 2004

Apache-2.0Open source

dart_scorm

SCORM 1.2 and 2004 bindings for Flutter and Dart web applications

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

Apache-2.0Open sourceStale

eLearning Module Parser

Java library that detects and parses SCORM, AICC, cmi5 and xAPI packages into typed metadata

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004 · xAPI · cmi5 · AICC

Apache-2.0Open source

grunt-scorm-manifest

Grunt task that writes an imsmanifest.xml for a single-SCO package

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen sourceStale

ngx-scorm-wrapper

An injectable Angular service wrapping the SCORM 1.2 and 2004 runtime APIs

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen sourceStale

node-scorm-packager

Node library that writes an imsmanifest and lays out a SCORM course directory

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen sourceStale

pipwerks SCORM API Wrapper

The JavaScript wrapper most SCORM courses have been built on since 2008

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen sourceStale

scorm (Ruby gem)

Reads, checks and builds SCORM packages from Ruby, with a small CLI alongside

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen source

scorm-again

A tested JavaScript SCORM 1.2 and 2004 runtime for anything that has to host a course

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen source

scorm-godot-plugin

Godot editor plugin that wires a web export to the SCORM 1.2 runtime and zips it

Standards supported: 1.2

MITOpen source

scorm-kit

A nine-command CLI that lints, diffs and audits SCORM packages before upload

Standards supported: 1.2 · cmi5

MITOpen source

scorm-mcp-server

An MCP tool that wraps a finished HTML module into an offline SCORM package

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen source

simple-scorm-packager

Node package that turns a build directory into a conformant SCORM zip

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen sourceArchived

simplify-scorm

SCORM 1.2 and 2004 runtime APIs in plain JavaScript, for the LMS side of the fence

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen sourceStale

usescorm

React hook that wraps the SCORM run-time API and keeps state in suspend data

Standards supported: 1.2 · 2004

MITOpen source

Questions people ask about packagers, sdks & libraries

Which JavaScript SCORM library should I use?

Look for one supporting SCORM 1.2 and 2004, still receiving commits, with an explicit persistence interface. The listings show licence, stars and last commit so you can judge maintenance rather than guess. Several long-abandoned wrappers still rank well in search — the badges here say plainly which.

Do I need a library, or can I call the SCORM API directly?

You can call it directly; it is not a large API. What libraries buy you is the tedious part — finding the API object across nested frames, handling initialisation order, normalising the differences between 1.2 and 2004, and coping with LMSs that return errors in creative ways.

What is the difference between a packager and an authoring tool?

A packager takes content you have already built and wraps it conformantly. An authoring tool creates the content. If you have a web app and need it to run in an LMS, you want a packager.

Are these production-ready?

Some are used in thousands of courses; some are a weekend project with three stars. The maintenance badge and the metrics panel on each listing exist precisely so you can tell which is which.

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