binaryb3ast/pigeon-mqtt-nest

Pigeon-MQTT-Nest is a utility library catering to a very specific niche: developers wanting to host an MQTT broker inside their NestJS web application process. With only 22 stars and zero activity (velocity 0.0/hr) after nearly 3.5 years, the project has failed to gain significant traction. Its defensibility is near zero because it likely wraps a standard Node.js broker like Aedes, providing some NestJS-specific decorators or modules—a task that a senior TypeScript developer could replicate in a few hours. Furthermore, embedding a broker inside a web framework process is often considered an anti-pattern for scalable IoT architectures, where dedicated brokers like Mosquitto, EMQX, or VerneMQ are preferred. The official NestJS '@nestjs/microservices' package already provides robust MQTT client support, making third-party wrappers like this one redundant for most production use cases. Displacement is imminent as it appears unmaintained and is being surpassed by more modern, native NestJS patterns.