Controllers do not need to extend Illuminate\Routing\Controller

[jerguslejko]

This check is actually incorrect as controllers do not need to extend Illuminate\Routing\Controller.

laravel-stats/src/ComponentConfiguration.php

Line 19 in ee15db0

'extends' => \Illuminate\Routing\Controller::class,

[stefanzweifel]

Didn't know about that. Here's the link to the docs.

Note that the controller extends the base controller class included with Laravel. The base class provides a few convenience methods such as the middleware method, which may be used to attach middleware to controller actions:

🚨 Controllers are not required to extend a base class. However, you will not have access to convenience features such as the middleware, validate, and dispatch methods.

[jerguslejko]

I think, I'd be better to load a list of routes and extract list of controllers from that.