question: Is this project dead?

It has been almost a year and a half since the latest release. There are a bunch of outdated dependencies.

Should we migrate away from routing-controllers? any alternative?

Thanks

[FrancisBehnen]

There's an active issue here: #783. You could switch to the PR that solves the deps for the time being

[pezholio]

@node-decorators/express looks like a good alternative. Not quite as full-featured, but something to build on for sure

[aviranco]

@martin-homer Ist he outdated dependencies resulting an issue?

Its a great lightweight library thats too bad there are no recent updates, however it seems it did achieved its goal making a lean decorator-based version of express, with validations etc.

Is there a concrete feature/bug that you are looking forward to?

There is NestJS which also offers using controllers with Decorators however it is a whole framework that offers a comprehensive solution (much more heavy compared to routing-controllers, therefore can be an overkill).

@pezholio Seems very similar, however I noticed it is not maintained for more than a year and way behind routing-controllers so I would suggest better skipping this one.

@aviranco yes, this is an issue for us because of outdated dependencies with known vulnerabilities.

We have other dependencies that also use class-validator but we can't update to newer versions (conflicts). As far as our usage, this routing-controllers feature complete and we wouldn't like to switch to other alternatives.

NestJS is what inspired us to choose routing-controllers but migrating to it is a larger effort.

[teddybee]

Is there any possibility to use/define a custom validator?

[mlois-efimob]

Really seems dead, lots of security problems with peer dependencies that are not updated, :(

[borjapazr]

Although this seems to me a great project, I have migrated to Ts.ED and so far it seems to me a great lightweight alternative.

[leonardlin]

Can someone recommend one that would have the lowest migration effort / most similar annotations?

[borjapazr]

Can someone recommend one that would have the lowest migration effort / most similar annotations?

I recently migrated routing-controllers to Ts.ED in a template I developed. Here I summarize my experience, but in summary, it was inexpensive and I gained a lot from the change.

[spicemc]

Can someone recommend one that would have the lowest migration effort / most similar annotations?

I created a fork with updated dependencies. Issues like #783 is fixed. It's published as routing-controllers-extended and is ready to use. The migration effort is very low.

[leonardlin]

Can someone recommend one that would have the lowest migration effort / most similar annotations?

I created a fork with updated dependencies. Issues like #783 is fixed. It's published as routing-controllers-extended and is ready to use. The migration effort is very low.

uiii! can't wait to try, thanks so much