The transition from NestJS v10 to v11 represents a watershed moment in the framework's evolution, marking a decisive shift toward modern Node.js paradigms and strictly typed infrastructure. Unlike minor version upgrades that typically introduce non-intrusive features, this migration is characterized by structural modifications to the underlying HTTP abstraction layer, specifically the adoption of Express v5 as the default server engine.1 This change, coupled with the enforcement of Node.js v20+ runtime requirements 1, necessitates a comprehensive architectural audit rather than a simple dependency update.
For enterprise-grade applications relying on the dependency set specified—ranging from @nestjs/core to auxiliary libraries like @nestjs/bullmq and @nestjs/config—the migration surface area is broad. The interconnected nature of these packages means that a change in the core routi