Is koa-router still maintained?
No. koa-router is no longer maintained. The same project continues under the name @koa/router.
- Status
- No longer maintained
- Last maintained
- Not pinned to a month
- Use instead
@koa/router— on npm- Succession
- Renamed package
- Drop-in
- yes — swap the import
- Confidence
- high
What should I use instead of koa-router?
The same project continues under the name @koa/router. @koa/router is close enough to a drop-in replacement that most projects only change the dependency and the import.
How to migrate from koa-router to @koa/router
Change the dependency name and the require path; the API is identical, so new Router() and all route methods keep working. Check the major version, since @koa/router is ahead of the unscoped alias.
Why koa-router is on this list
Koa's router moved under the official @koa scope at version 9, and every koa-router release since June 2020 carries the npm notice "Please use @koa/router instead, starting from v9!". Both names are published from the koajs/router repository, so the unscoped package is best understood as a deprecated alias rather than an abandoned project — though it lags the scoped package by a major version. New work and documentation reference the scoped name.
The succession is settled: primary sources agree and the ecosystem has already moved.
koa-router alternatives
The dataset lists no second option: @koa/router is where the ecosystem went, and nothing else has meaningful adoption.
Check your own project for koa-router
npx dead-deps --all --min-state unmaintainedRun that in the directory holding your lockfile. If koa-router is anywhere in your tree — a direct dependency or buried under something else — it appears in the report with this verdict, this successor and the same evidence links, alongside anything else that has stopped moving. Nothing is uploaded; the scan reads your lockfile locally and queries public registry metadata.
Exit code 1 means something was flagged, which makes npx dead-deps --min-state deprecated usable as a CI gate. See how verdicts are produced.
Evidence
Every claim on this page traces to a primary source. Check them:
- npm deprecation notice for koa-routernpmjs.com
- Shared koajs/router repository publishing both namesgithub.com
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See the full index of covered packages, or read the methodology for how a verdict is reached and why a quiet package is not a dead one.