Hello, I recently learned that the ionic-plugin-deeplinks cordova plugin was recently deprecated. This is unfortunate because I have already begun using it in a new feature I am building. I started this work before the plugin was deprecated and am revisiting it now. I guess I have three main questions about this:
Note: I am trying to do this on a cordova application, not a capacitor application
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Is it still safe to use this plugin in production?
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Are there any alternatives to this plugin that are relatively light weight?
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Is there a reason this plugin was deprecated that I should know about, considering I am looking at implementing deep-linking in my cordova app?
I think BranchMetrics is mentioned as an alternative on the github page but that seems to be a whole heavy weight integration that includes a ton of features I don’t need.
I guess I should say I am purely using a cordova application not a capacitor application.
Hmmm…migrate to Capacitor? Long-term that is going to be your better bet 
Otherwise, you’ll probably need to reach out to the Cordova community to find a different deep link solution 
My guess is that Ionic deprecated the Cordova deep link plugin because they no longer are advocates for Cordova and don’t want to support it any longer.
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Thanks for the advice. I am guessing migrating to Capacitor is probably better in the long run but it is also probably a big lift. Maybe I should start a new thread asking about people’s experiences with migrating.
Heres a good non official guide to help you get started,
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For anyone else facing this challenge, I looked at various forks and found that others are maintaining their own branches even though none of them will be merged into the master.
For Cordova 12, Android 13…this fork works: GitHub - FWink/cordova-plugin-deeplinks: Cordova plugin to support Universal/Deep Links for iOS/Android..
For Cordova 12, IOS 7.1.1., the original cordova-plugin-deeplinks v1.1.1 still works with no modifications to plugin